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Photos by Christopher Gregory-Rivera @cgregoryphoto / Ocoee, Florida, is the site of the most violent incidents of voter suppression in the history of the United States. A century ago, on Election Day in 1920, two affluent Black men from Ocoee, Mose Norman and Julius "July" Perry, organized the Black community to vote and were brutally attacked by the Ku Klux Klan and local law enforcement. This incident led to the deaths of Perry and anywhere from three to 50 members of the Black community, as well as two Klansmen. After the massacre, the Black community was ousted from the town and their lands were confiscated. For the next 65 years Ocoee became a sundown town, where Black people were banned after sunset by threat of violence.

(1) George Oliver, the first Black commissioner of Ocoee. (2) Narisse Spicer's great-grandparents fled Ocoee during the massacre and resettled in Apopka, Florida. “We are 100 years later into this, and we are still dealing with voter intimidation and voter suppression and issues of race and violence. It is definitely time, and well overdue, to start thinking about how we can change the future so that future generations don’t experience the same thing,” she said. (3) Pam Grady stands in front of July Perry’s former land. “We are not mourning the death of July Perry; we are celebrating his bravery,” she told me. “These people paved the way for us to have the right to vote.” (4) J. Carl Devine's grandparents fled Ocoee after the massacre. “When one group is trying to suppress another group from voting, that’s when the whole Constitution is then in jeopardy. When one person is denied, all of us are denied.” (5) Jacqueline Perry Blalock (left) and Sha’ron McWhite are both descendants of July Perry. “Our ancestors laid the foundation of the importance of [expressing] our right to vote, and we need to continue that on so that our future generations will have a better opportunity at an equal life. That is what I would like to see,” McWhite said. (6) The city maintains the site of the former African-American cemetery in Ocoee, but it has yet to acquire the land and create a space for reflection as members of the Black community have proposed.

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