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Chuck Darwin<p>In what became known as the largest incident of Election Day violence in U.S. history, <br>the tragedy in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ocoee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ocoee</span></a> stands as a stark reminder of the racist barriers Black voters faced as they attempted to exercise their basic right to vote. </p><p>But while passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to bar Black voters, <br>that legislation was too late to help Ocoee’s Black residents. <br>The majority of Black people in Ocoee in 1920 lost their homes, and as many as 60 of them lost their lives.</p><p>‘The night the devil got loose'</p><p>The violence in Ocoee was not surprising, given the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to intimidate Black voters and their Republican allies before the election.</p><p>In addition to marches throughout the state, the Ku Klux Klan grand master in Florida sent a letter to Republican politician William R. O’Neal, <br>who was openly courting Black voters in his bid to become a U.S. senator. </p><p>The letter threatened O'Neal if he continued “going out among the negroes of Orlando … explaining to them just how to become citizens, and how to assert their rights.” </p><p>The letter concluded: <br>“We shall always enjoy WHITE SUPREMACY in this country and he who interferes must face the consequences.”</p><p>The local branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Ocoee also told a former judge that if any Black residents attempted to vote “… there would be serious trouble.”<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/for-one-survivor-the-1920-election-day-massacre-in-florida-was-the-night-the-devil-got-loose-241545" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/for-one-su</span><span class="invisible">rvivor-the-1920-election-day-massacre-in-florida-was-the-night-the-devil-got-loose-241545</span></a></p>
Queer Lit Cats<p>Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Kamala Harris Reams Out Florida's Plan to Teach Kids That Slavery Benefited Black People <a href="https://jezebel.com/kamala-harris-reams-out-floridas-plan-to-teach-kids-tha-1850664834" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jezebel.com/kamala-harris-ream</span><span class="invisible">s-out-floridas-plan-to-teach-kids-tha-1850664834</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Jezebel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jezebel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/lynchingintheunitedstates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lynchingintheunitedstates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/tulsaracemassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tulsaracemassacre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/geraldinethompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geraldinethompson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/rosewoodmassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rosewoodmassacre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/atlantaraceriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlantaraceriot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/ocoeemassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocoeemassacre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/kamalaharris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kamalaharris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/jeffsessions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jeffsessions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/ocoeeflorida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocoeeflorida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/socialissues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialissues</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/mosesnorman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosesnorman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/rondesantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rondesantis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/paulburns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulburns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/ocoee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocoee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/perry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perry</span></a></p>
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