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11. The 1920 Ocoee Election Day Massacre

Jason Byrne
Nov 23, 2014

... One-by-one would-be black voters were turned away either by threats of violence or by poll workers who found their names “mysteriously” absent from the voter registration rolls. Pollsters instructed them to get documentation from notary public R. C. Biegelow to verify that they were .. registered to vote. Conveniently .. Biegelow .. was out .. fishing .. that day.

With little other option, most returned to their homes without casting their ballots. Mose Norman would not be so easily deterred. After being turned away that morning in his Ocoee precinct, he rode to Orlando to seek the council of Judge Cheney ...

Around 50 cars full of Klan members flooded into Ocoee from towns such as Winter Garden, Orlando, and Sanford. The growing ad hoc militia was more largely populated by outsiders than Ocoee townspeople themselves ...

His hanging body was riddled with bullets ... This .. was left .. as a warning .. with an accompanying note saying “This is what we do to niggers who try to vote” ...

https://medium.com/florida-history/ocoee-on-fire-the-1920-election-day-massacre-38adbda9666e#.l60noxrfh