July Perry was lynched on Election Day 1920 after another Black Ocoee resident tried to vote. On Election Day 2020, voters can honor Perry's memory by voting and rejecting modern-day voter suppression efforts.
It’s taken a century, but family tales of the Ocoee 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.
