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Special Series: The Election Day Massacre, Part 2
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:22:48
Publish Date: 2021-06-10 15:35:09
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Before the presidential election of 1920, the Klan marched through Florida to warn Black citizens not to vote. Newspapers across the state issued the same warning. When a prominent Black resident, Mose Norman, tried to cast his vote in the town of Ocoee, a mob of white vigilantes descended on the community. They exacted a terrible vengeance, starting with the family of a local Black leader, July Perry.

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