OCOEE, Fla. – As many Americans reflect upon the nation’s past and hope to enact change for a better future, pushing against continued systemic inequalities, Florida finds itself upon the near 100-year mark of an event that would shape the experience for many Black Americans in the state for years to come.In just a few months, Flordia will mark 100 years since 50 Black men were shot and killed in Ocoee as they sought to exercise their right to vote, a tragic piece of history known as the Ocoee Massacre.According to the Zinn Education Project, on Nov.
1, 1920, just a day before polls would open to all citizens of Ocoee, robed members of the Ku Klux Klan paraded down the streets of the sleepy citrus town, chanting “not a single Negro will be.