Special Series: The Election Day Massacre. Part 3.

Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

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Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After the horrific violence of Election Day, 1920, in Ocoee, Florida, hundreds of Black families fled the town, never to return. White farmers took ownership of their lands. And the crimes of the mobs of white vigilantes - lynching, murders, arson, theft - were covered up for almost a century. Until now.

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0:36.0	I'm Sean Braswell. Welcome to Flashback. We're doing something a little different in this episode.
0:42.1	We're running a special series about the worst incident of election violence in American history,
0:47.3	an event that is almost forgotten today. It happened a century ago on Election Day, 1920, in the town of Akoey, Florida.
0:56.2	The victims were hundreds of black residents.
0:58.8	The perpetrators were their white neighbors.
1:01.4	And the reason was that black citizens had gone to the polls and tried to vote. They said that you
1:20.6	That you left terrorist house was burned.
1:24.6	I'm sure it was.
1:26.6	This oral history was recorded a few years ago with the late Mildred Board.
1:31.4	We're hearing it, courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center.
1:35.3	As a little girl, Ms. Board lived a few miles from McCoy, Florida.
1:39.4	The morning after Election Day, 1920, hundreds of black families fled the town.
1:45.2	She remembered one woman in particular.
1:47.7	Talked about how they got on the railroad track and walked the railroad track.
1:55.6	They walked so far and then maybe they had a truck or horse and buggy and they would pick them up along the railroad
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