COMMEMORATING JULY PERRY AND ADDRESSING THE HISTORY OF RACIAL VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA [WMFE]

Kelsey Visser 6/24/199:31 AM

On Friday, an historic marker was unveiled outside the Orange County History Center in Orlando, commemorating July Perry.

Perry was lynched during the Ocoee massacre in November 1920, a wave of violence in which up to 30 black residents of Ocoee were killed and the town was burned by a white mob.

The marker is a reminder of the horror of what happened in Ocoee and the decades of racial terror that gripped the South. So what does this commemoration say about how far this community has come, and how much work there is left to do in the path to racial equality? [For more on this story, written by WMFE, go to: https://www.wmfe.org/commemora...NkpIi-m3ymeLgt53nGT4]

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