Bill Seeks To Compensate Descendants Of Ocoee Massacre Victims 100 Years Later

Stephen Hudak, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mon, 09/16/2019 - 2:30am

A bill introduced by Democratic state Sen. Randolph Bracy would split $10 million among descendants of victims of the Ocoee massacre. The bloody Election Day fray in 1920 led to a lynching and the exodus of virtually every black resident in the west Orange community for more than half a century.

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