![]() ![]() It’s hard to detail exactly how the events of that day, known as the Ocoee Massacre, transpired. It stemmed from one Black man’s attempt to vote It was “the single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” Ortiz wrote. In an attempt to prevent Black people from voting, a White mob in Ocoee killed dozens of African Americans, set fire to their houses and drove them out of the community. “State and local officials – along with the Ku Klux Klan – understood that white supremacy was in trouble,” Ortiz wrote. ![]() (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File) Bob Daugherty/APįour ways 'Jim Crow 2.0' is shaping this presidential electionīut in the run-up to the 1920 election, Black people in Ocoee were registering to vote in droves – a reality that threatened the grip of white supremacy, wrote Paul Ortiz, a history professor at the University of Florida, in a 2010 essay. ![]() Instead of the term popularized during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern-day labels, "black" or "African-American". After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in its surveys. FILE - In this Apblack-and-white file photo, a man holds a Confederate flag at right, as demonstrators, including one carrying a sign saying: "More than 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote in Ala", demonstrate in front of an Indianapolis hotel where then-Alabama Governor George Wallace was staying. ![]()
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