Goodman Grey
11-02-2020, 10:20 PM
https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?id=1143
Well, what did the nigger expect when it brought a shotgun to a polling center and demanded that it be allowed to vote?
On Nov. 3, 1920, in Ocoee, FL, blacks became involved in fighting after trying to vote.
On November 2nd, 1920, Norman and Perry go to the Ocoee polls to cast their votes. Though Norman had allegedly paid his poll tax, he does not see his name on the register, he and Perry are turned away and told not to come back. Mose Norman returns to the polls later that evening with a shot gun. An altercation ensues, and Mose Norman is pistol whipped and sent away a second time. Mose Norman is never heard from again.
Word spreads rapidly of the altercation at the polls and later that evening word of a race riot has spread as far away as Georgia.
By nightfall, over 250 citizens from around the state of Florida have collected inside the town and begin a burning spree in the Black section of town. The Black citizens flee for their lives into the orange groves, swamps and neighboring towns. However, many are burned in their homes or shot as they flee the infernos. In the aftermath, twenty five homes, two churches, and a masonic lodge are incinerated; and the death toll is said to be above fifty. On the morning of November 3rd, July Perry's body is found hanging from a light pole. The land that was fled by the black citizens was divied up and sold for $1.50 an acre. Blacks would not inhabit the city until sixty one years later in 1981.
The impact on local blacks was long-lasting. According to Parrish, "The negros were afraid to go through Ocoee and they would not be found there after dark. There was some [fruit] picking crews, I was told, that when towards the end of the day, if the crew boss stopping in Ocoee to maybe pick up a Coke or something like that, and if he got to talking and didn't come right back out to drive the negros away from Ocoee, that they would get off the truck and start walking to get out.
Nigger don't let the sun set on your head.
Well, what did the nigger expect when it brought a shotgun to a polling center and demanded that it be allowed to vote?
On Nov. 3, 1920, in Ocoee, FL, blacks became involved in fighting after trying to vote.
On November 2nd, 1920, Norman and Perry go to the Ocoee polls to cast their votes. Though Norman had allegedly paid his poll tax, he does not see his name on the register, he and Perry are turned away and told not to come back. Mose Norman returns to the polls later that evening with a shot gun. An altercation ensues, and Mose Norman is pistol whipped and sent away a second time. Mose Norman is never heard from again.
Word spreads rapidly of the altercation at the polls and later that evening word of a race riot has spread as far away as Georgia.
By nightfall, over 250 citizens from around the state of Florida have collected inside the town and begin a burning spree in the Black section of town. The Black citizens flee for their lives into the orange groves, swamps and neighboring towns. However, many are burned in their homes or shot as they flee the infernos. In the aftermath, twenty five homes, two churches, and a masonic lodge are incinerated; and the death toll is said to be above fifty. On the morning of November 3rd, July Perry's body is found hanging from a light pole. The land that was fled by the black citizens was divied up and sold for $1.50 an acre. Blacks would not inhabit the city until sixty one years later in 1981.
The impact on local blacks was long-lasting. According to Parrish, "The negros were afraid to go through Ocoee and they would not be found there after dark. There was some [fruit] picking crews, I was told, that when towards the end of the day, if the crew boss stopping in Ocoee to maybe pick up a Coke or something like that, and if he got to talking and didn't come right back out to drive the negros away from Ocoee, that they would get off the truck and start walking to get out.
Nigger don't let the sun set on your head.