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VIDEO: Gone But Not Forgotten: Florida's Ocoee Massacre of 1920

Photo credits: Warner Brothers Pictures In retaliation to an attempt by African Americans to innocently use their legal and democratic right to vote, at least 50 of them were murdered during a brutal Election Day massacre in Ocoee, Florida on Nov. 2, 1920. This horrific event in American history is now called the Ocoee Massacre. On […]

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