Ocoee On Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre
BY JASON BYRNE | NOVEMBER 21, 2014
... Ocoee was founded in the 1850s ... By 1920 there were just over 1,000 residents of the unincorporated town. Almost half of them were black ... In the weeks leading up to the 1920 election, the Klan sent threatening letters to .. Republican leaders. They ordered them to stop the voter registration campaign ... On November 1st, the day before the election, with robes and crosses, the Klan paraded through the streets ... With megaphones they warned that “not a single Negro will be permitted to vote” ... One-by-one would-be black voters were turned away ... Pollsters instructed them to get documentation from notary public R. C. Biegelow to verify that they were indeed registered ... Biegelow was unable to be located ... Mose Norman would not be so easily deterred ...A lynch mob descended upon the jail just before dawn ... Sheriff Frank Gordon handed over the keys to Perry’s cell ...
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