04-02-2019 Supporting Documents CITY OF OCOEE
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The following time limits to speak are in effect:
Public Hearings: petitioner presentation - 15 minutes; citizen comments - 5 minutes per speaker;
petitioner rebuttal - 5 minutes.
Open to Public — Citizens Comments - 3 minutes per speaker, per meeting.
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150 N. Lakeshore Drive
ocoe(. Ocoee, Florida 34761
noridc 407-905-3100
SPEAKING RESERVATION FORM
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I want to address the Board about: ['((2' a + (3
Do you have a prepared statement, or other document(s) from which you will address the Board?
No ✓J Yes if yes, please attach copy of same to this Reservation Form.
All proceedings before the Commission shall be governed by the Civility Code —see back
The following time limits to speak are in effect:
Public Hearings: petitioner presentation - 15 minutes; citizen comments - 5 minutes per speaker;
petitioner rebuttal - 5 minutes.
Open to Public — Citizens Comments - 3 minutes per speaker, per meeting.
OCOEE MASSACRE MARKER NARRATIVE 8-14-17
THE OCOEE MASSACRE
By 1920, the black community of Ocoee represented half of the town's 1,000 residents and an
established black middle class of land and business owners who eagerly participated in voter
registration drives. Although the Klu Klux Klan marched through the streets terrorizing the
black community, trying to intimidate them not to vote, on Election Day, November 02, 1920,
Mose Norman, a prosperous citrus grower, along with other members of the black community,
attempted to vote and were turned away. After seeking advice from Judge John Cheney in
Orlando, Mr. Norman made a second attempt to vote which resulted in an immediate altercation
followed by the threat of an armed, white mob who attacked the black community. Suspecting
that Mr. Norman had taken refuge at the home of his friend July Perry, a well-respected leader,
the mob attacked Mr. Perry's home where they shot several family members, arrested July Perry
and jailed him in Orlando. Soon after, a lynch mob seized Mr. Perry, beat him severely, and
strung his bullet -riddled body on a telephone pole near Judge Cheney's home. Over the course of
the next two days, the mob burned 25 black homes, two black churches, and a Masonic Lodge,
and a school in Ocoee; an undetermined number of black residents were killed in the violence.
Survivors fled, never to return, and over the next several years the entire black community was
forced out of Ocoee. Decades later a newly integrated modern Ocoee seeks to solidify its
understanding of such historic events in order to maintain a path that ensures such a dark and
hateful history is never repeated.