Ocoee massacre

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Ocoee massacre
Part of the Nadir of American race relations
Location Ocoee, Florida
DateNovember 2–3, 1920
Attack type
 Massacre
Deaths30–80 blacks
2 white rioters [1] [2] [3]
PerpetratorsWhite mobs
No. of participants
200+

The Ocoee massacre was a mass racial violence event that saw a white mob attack numerous African-American residents in the northern parts of Ocoee, Florida, a town located in Orange County near Orlando. Ocoee was the home to 255 African-American residents and 560 white residents according to the 1920 Census. [3] The massacre took place on November 2, 1920, the day of the U.S. presidential election leaving a lasting political, but also community impact, as the 1930 census shows 1,180 whites, 11 Native Americans, and 2 African Americans (0.2%). [4]

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By most estimates, a total of 30–80 black people were killed during what has been considered the "single bloodiest day in modern American political history". [2] One of the victims killed two white rioters in self-defense. Most African American-owned buildings and residences in northern Ocoee were burned to the ground. Other African Americans living in southern Ocoee were later killed or driven out of town by the threat of further violence being used against them. Thus, Ocoee essentially became an all-white or "sundown" town.

The attack was intended to prevent black citizens from voting. Poll taxes had been imposed as de facto disenfranchisement in Florida since the beginning of the 20th century. In Ocoee and across the state, various black organizations had been conducting voter registration drives for a year. In November 1920, Mose Norman, a prosperous African-American farmer, tried to vote, but was turned away twice after refusing to pay the poll tax on Election Day. Norman was among those working on the voter drive. Angered, he returned armed with a shotgun and threatened poll workers several times so much so that there was a warrant out for his arrest. Reports say they fired at poll workers, but were driven off.

Later that day, some white Ocoee residents were deputized by Orange County Sheriff Deputy Clyde Pounds and charged with arresting Julius "July" Perry and Mose Norman. They surrounded the home of Julius Perry, where Mose Norman was thought to have taken refuge. In the process of attempting to arrest Perry, two white men were killed and others wounded, although the perpetrators were never identified. Perry and his 19-year-old daughter, Caretha, were also wounded by gunfire. Reinforcements from Orlando and Orange County were called upon, contributing to a mob that laid waste to the African-American community in northern Ocoee and eventually lynching Perry, [5] who was in custody at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, shooting and taking his body to Orlando, where he was hanged from a lightpost to intimidate other black people. [6] Norman escaped, never to be found. Hundreds of other African Americans fled the town, leaving behind their homes and possessions.

"Most of the people living in Ocoee don't even know that this happened there", said Pamela Schwartz, chief curator of the Orange County Regional History Center, which sponsored an exhibit on it. For almost a century, many descendants of survivors were not aware of the massacre that occurred in their hometown. [4]

Background

Twenty-eight enslaved persons and Ocoee’s first white settler, the slave owner, James D. Starke, are included in the 1860 Orange County Census. Beginning in 1888, many African American residents of Ocoee were able to purchase farmland, "bringing them wealth and security often denied to Black folks in the Jim Crow South". [4]

Orange County, as well as the rest of Florida, had been "politically dominated by Southern white Democrats" (also known as Dixiecrats) since the end of Reconstruction. [7] In the weeks leading up to the presidential election of 1920, African Americans throughout the South were registering to vote in record numbers. [2] At the same time the Ku Klux Klan had established many new chapters since 1915. Three weeks before election day, the Ku Klux Klan threatened the African American community that "not a single Negro would be permitted to vote." [8]

Judge John Moses Cheney, a Republican running for the United States Senate from Florida, participated actively in the campaign to register African Americans to vote in Florida. As a lawyer, he had represented African American clients during the segregation era. Mose Norman and July Perry, both "prosperous African American landowners in Ocoee," led the local voter registration efforts in Orange County, paying the poll tax for those who could not afford it. [7] In an effort to preserve white one-party rule, the Ku Klux Klan "marched in full regalia through the streets of Jacksonville, Daytona and Orlando" to intimidate opponents. [9] Because African Americans had supported the Republican Party since Reconstruction, [7] the Ku Klux Klan threatened Judge Cheney prior to the election. [7]

Sam Salisbury was a police chief in Orlando, Florida. A native of New York, Salisbury served in the U.S. military and was known as Colonel Sam Salisbury. [10] [11] A white supremacist and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Salisbury bragged about his involvement in the violent oppression and intimidation of African Americans attempting to vote in the previous 1920 election. He was one of the leaders of the events leading up to the Ocoee massacre. [12] [13] He was injured in an attack he led on July Perry's home in Ocoee. [10]

Massacre

Election day

African Americans were met with resistance from the white community when they attempted to vote on election day. Poll workers challenged whether African American voters were really registered. [14] The voters had to prove they were registered by appearing before the notary public, R. C. Biegelow, who was regularly sent on fishing trips so that he was impossible to find. [14] However, African Americans, including Mose Norman, persisted but were "pushed and shoved away" from the polls. [14]

Norman contacted Judge John Cheney, who told him that interference with voting was illegal and told him to write the names of the African Americans who were denied their constitutional rights, as well as the names of the whites who were violating them. [15] Norman later returned to the polling place in Ocoee. It is not clear whether Norman's shotgun was stolen from his car while he attempted to vote, [16] but whites at the polls drove off Norman using his own shotgun. [15] [17]

The white community began to form a mob and paraded up and down the streets, growing "more disorderly and unmanageable". [15] The rest of the African Americans gave up on trying to vote and left the polling place. [15] Later during the evening, Sam Salisbury, the former chief of police of Orlando, [18] was called to lead a lynch mob to "find and punish Mose Norman." [7] He later proudly bragged about his part in the events. [9]

Regarding the Ku Klux Klan, Historian David Chalmers asserts: "the evidence does not point to Klan responsibility or participation in the election day race riot in Ocoee in 1920." [19]

Invasion of Perry's home

The armed white mob was on its way to Norman's home when someone informed them that their target had been seen at the home of July Perry. [15] The mob, by then numbering about 100 men, arrived at Perry's house demanding that Perry and Norman surrender. [18] When they received no answer, they attempted to break down the front door. [18] Perry, who had been warned about the mob, fired gunshots from inside the home in self-defense. [18] Exactly how many people were defending the house is uncertain; the whites estimated that there were several armed African Americans. Zora Neale Hurston wrote that Perry had defended his home alone. [20] Sam Salisbury knocked the back door open and was shot in the arm, [20] becoming the first white casualty. [18] Two other whites, veterans Elmer McDaniels and Leo Borgard, [17] were killed when they also tried to enter through the back door. [20] Their bodies were found hours later in the backyard. [17]

The white mob withdrew and put out a call for reinforcements to whites in Orlando, Apopka and Orange County, either calling them by phone or sending for them by car. [20] During the two- to three-hour lull while the whites were recruiting other men, July Perry, injured in the conflict, attempted to flee with the help of his wife into a cane patch. [21] He was found by the white mob at dawn and arrested. [21] After Perry was treated at a hospital for his wounds, he was taken by a white mob from a vehicle while being transferred to a jail. They lynched him, [17] "and left his body hanging from a telephone post beside the highway." [21] Norman was never found. Much of the trouble was attributed to "outsiders" from Winter Garden and Orlando. [22]

Ocoee is razed

With the reinforcement of some 200 men, the white mob took the massacre to the rest of the African-American community in northern Ocoee. [23] The "white paramilitary forces surrounded the northern Ocoee black community and laid siege to it." [18] They set fire to rows of African-American houses; those inside were forced to flee and many were shot by whites. [20] At least 20 buildings were burned in total, [17] including every African American church, schoolhouse, and lodge room in the vicinity. [24] African-American residents fought back in an evening-long gunfight lasting until as late as 4:45 A.M., [18] their firearms later found in the ruins after the massacre ended. [17] Eventually, black residents were driven into the nearby orange groves and swamps, forced to retreat until they were driven out of town. [25] The fleeing sought refuge in the surrounding woods or in the neighboring towns of Winter Garden and Apopka, which had substantial populations of black people. [22]

The siege of Ocoee claimed numerous African-American victims. Langmaid, an African-American carpenter, was beaten and castrated. [20] Maggie Genlack and her pregnant daughter died while hiding in her home; their bodies were found partially burned underneath it. [20] Roosevelt Barton, an African American hiding in July Perry's barn, was shot after the mob set fire to the barn and forced him to flee. [20] Hattie Smith was visiting her pregnant sister-in-law in Ocoee when her sister-in-law's home was set on fire. Smith fled, but her sister-in-law's family was killed while they hid and waited for help that never came. [18]

Aftermath

Expulsion of African Americans

The African-American residents of southern Ocoee, while not direct victims of the massacre, were later threatened into leaving. [26] Annie Hamiter, an African-American woman residing in southern Ocoee (sometimes referred to as Mrs. J.H. Hamiter), suspected that the massacre was planned so that whites could seize the property of prosperous African Americans for nothing. [26] According to Hamiter, people in southern Ocoee were coerced by the threat of being shot and burned out if they did not "sell out and leave." [26] About 500 African Americans in total were rapidly driven out of Ocoee, resulting in its population being nearly all white. [26] That fall, white residents had to work to harvest the citrus crop because black laborers had fled the region. [27] No African-American residents settled there again "until sixty-one years later in 1981". [7]

Subsequent events

July Perry's body was found "riddled with bullets" and swinging on a telephone post by the highway. [21] According to The Chicago Defender , his body was left near a sign reading, "This is what we do to niggers that vote". Another source has said he was hanged near the home of a judge who supported the black voter franchise. A local photographer was selling photos of Perry's body for 25 cents each; several stores placed the photo on exhibition by their windows. No one was prosecuted for his murder. [28] Perry's wife, Estelle Perry, and their daughter were wounded during the shooting at their home, but survived. The authorities sent them to Tampa for treatment in order "to avoid further disturbance." [27]

Walter White of the NAACP arrived in Orange County a few days after the riot to investigate events. He was traveling undercover as a white northerner interested in buying orange grove property in the county. [24] He found that the whites there were "still giddy with victory." [24] A local real estate agent and a taxi cab driver told him that about 56 African Americans were killed in the massacre. [24] White's NAACP report recorded around thirty dead. [1] A Methodist pastor, Reverend J. A. Long, and a Baptist minister, Reverend H. K. Hill, both from Orlando, reported that they had heard of 35 African-American deaths in Ocoee as a result of the fires and shootings. [3] Charles Cowe in 1970 described 12 dead. [29] A University of Florida student who interviewed local residents for a history term paper claimed in 1949 that "About thirty to thirty-five [murdered] is the most common estimate of the old timers." [2] The exact number could never be determined. [24] White also learned that many black residents thought the massacre was due to the white community's jealousy of prosperous African Americans, such as Norman and Perry. [26]

"No one was ever held responsible for any of the deadly violence. Agents for the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI) showed up a few weeks later, but they made it clear they weren’t investigating murder, arson or assault. They were interested only in election fraud." The leader of the mob later became mayor of Ocoee. [4]

Supporters urged the House Election Committee of Congress to investigate the riot and voter suppression in Florida, with a view to suing under the Fourteenth Amendment, but it failed to act.

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