Descendants of the survivors of the 1920 Ocoee Election Day Massacre gathered Saturday in downtown Ocoee’s Unity Park to commemorate the event’s 105th anniversary.
In a ceremony hosted by the city of Ocoee and open to the public, descendants laid white roses at the park’s Memorial Wall.
Erected in 2024, the Memorial Wall — two black panels, opening accordion-style and etched with white writing — lists the names of Ocoee’s 263 Black residents who were murdered, maimed or forced from their property in 1920 by the white mob bent on retribution because the Black men, Mose Norman and Julius “July” Perry, tried to vote.
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