Hallowed Ground
Commemoration of massacre of Black residents "that occurred on Election Day 1920. Until that episode, historians say, black people comprised about half of the city’s population. Trouble boiled over after a Black man was denied the right to vote. The fight exploded into a gun battle. July Perry, one of the Black men who stood up to the bigots, was arrested in Ocoee and jailed in Orlando. Vigilantes took Perry out of the jail and lynched him. Then angry, white mobs torched the homes and churches of black Ocoee residents and forced them to leave town." Orlando Sentinel. Thought to be a burial ground but that is disputed.