Current Events > Story of Ocoee Massacre finally being told

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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/ocoee-massacre/os-ne-ocoee-what-happened-20201029-n3k7lqdbafg5re3qwxq2g3wnve-htmlstory.html

Its taken a century, but family tales of the massacre, passed down by survivors through at least three generations, are at last shaping the official narrative of the terror that for decades was obscured or excused by a whitewashing of facts.

Public officials, as well as the Orlando Sentinel and other accounts, for years referred to the violence as a race riot, often implying that the Black community itself caused the violence rather than were the victims of it.

By the time the flames died out and the shooting stopped, the Black neighborhood was a gruesome cremation scene, according to the Orlando Morning Sentinel, which reported two white deaths and an unknown number of Black residents dead or missing.

Perrys lynching was shrugged off.
The Orlando Morning Sentinel quoted a jail doctor saying, Perry was expected to die at any moment anyway.

Damn, that sounds really familiar

According to the 1920 U.S. Census, 560 whites and 255 Blacks lived in Ocoee.

Schwartz said History Center research shows 24 Blacks owned land there with 42 properties among them. She said some Black residents had been in the region since the 1880s and had accumulated enviable wealth, including both Perry and Norman, owner of a productive grove.

The combined value of those Black-owned properties today is estimated at $9 million, she said.

There are so many stories of massacres of black people and subsequent theft of black owned property from the Jim Crow era. Reparations aren't only about slavery, folks

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