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A 37-year-old man with an “All Gas, No Breaks” tattoo ended a series of car burglaries with a crash during a police chase on Monday in Polk County.
On Sunday, a bus filled with Miami-Dade teachers immersed itself in Florida history, specifically African American history, to learn firsthand about racist atrocities Black citizens endured a century ago in Ocoee and in Rosewood.
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After Perry was lynched, the mob laid siege to the black section of Ocoee, Fla., killing dozens. That dark episode, until recently largely forgotten, came to be known as the 1920 Ocoee Election Day Riots. Others remember it as a massacre, one of the many acts of racial violence perpetrated against black citizens over the decades. The Ocoee massacre was just one of many that engulfed communities across the country during the Jim Crow era. Bracy and state Rep. Kamia Brown, both Democrats, wanted similar compensation for descendants of the Ocoee riots but failed to muster support from the Republican-controlled Legislature.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A 100-year-old Election Day massacre of African Americans in a small central Florida town could become part of school lessons and Museum of Florida History exhibits under a bill the Senate passed unanimously Thursday. The bill would require the Department of Education's African American History Task Force to examine ways the Ocoee Election Day Riots could be incorporate in the state's black history curriculum. “It's tragic, it's disturbing, but it's our history,” Democratic Sen. Randolph Bracy said in an interview after the vote. A mass redistribution of wealth is what was really at the center of racial violence here," Bracy said. The state Department of Environmental Protection would be directed to see if there is an appropriate state park or state park facility that could be named for victims of the riots.
