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Journal Articles

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“Practically All Negroes Have Left Ocoee, Fla.” Norwich Bulletin. November 5, 1920.

“Probe into Killing Od 20 Negroes Begun.” Washington Herald. December 18, 1920.

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“Race Riots Near [Sic]: Two White Men Dead; Negro Hanged; Others Killed; Negro Huts Burned.” The Daytona Daily News. November 3, 1920.

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“Steady, Men.” Sanford Herald. November 5, 1920.

“To Probe Race Troubles.” Evening Times. December 17, 1920.

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“Two White Men and Eight Negroes Slain in Election Clash.” News Scimitar. November 4, 1920.

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“U.S. Inquiry Ordered Into Election Riots in Florida.” New York Tribune. December 18, 1920.

“U.S. Will Inquire Into Election Riots: Florida Official Instructed in Death of Negroes at Ocoee.” Evening Star. December 18, 1920.

“Woman Escaped from Florida Mob but Rest of Family Died.” New York Age. December 18, 1920.


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Documentaries and Digital Media

Cassanello, Robert, Lisa Mills, and Kathy Parry. Hymns of Three Cities, 2015. https://vimeo.com/161305317.

Murphy, Michael. “Architecture That’s Built to Heal.” TED Talk, February 2016. https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_murphy_architecture_that’s_built_to_heal.

“Remembering the Victims of the Ocoee Massacre.” Intersections. Orlando, Florida: 90.7 WMFE, March 19, 2019.

Stevenson, Bryan. “We Need to Talk About an Injustice.” TED Talk, March 2012. https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice.

White, Bianca, and Sandra Krasa. Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day Massacre. DVD. Florida: Wise Eye Media, Inc., 2008.



Journal Articles

Armstead, Cathleen L. “Competing Narratives, Fragmented Community. Stories of the Ocoee Massacre of 1920.” Selected Annual Proceeding of the Florida Conference of Historians. Annual Meeting 2000/2001. Volumes 8/9 (February 2002): 57. 

Ball, Howard. “Racial Vote Dilution: Impact of the Reagan DOJ and the Burger Court on the Voting Rights Act.” Publius 16, no. 4 (1986): 29-48. Accessed July 22, 2021. doi:10.2307/3330157.

Byrne, Jason. “Ocoee on Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre.” Medium, November 23, 2014. Accessed April 19, 2021. https://medium.com/florida-history/ocoee-on-fire-the-1920-election-day-massacre-38adbda9666e.

Cassanello, Robert. “The Right to Vote and the Long Nineteenth Century in Florida.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2016): 194–220.

Chalmers, David. “The Ku Klux Klan in the Sunshine State: The 1920’s.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 42, no. 3 (1964): 209–15.

Colbourn, David. “Rosewood and America in the Early Twentieth Century.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 76, no. 2 (1997): 175–92.

Danese, Tracey E. “Disfranchisement, Women’s Suffrage and the Failure of the Florida Grandfather Clause.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 74, no. 2 (1995): 117–31.

Emmons, Caroline. “‘Somebody Has Got to Do That Work:’ Harry T. Moore and the Struggle for African-American Voting Rights in Florida.” The Journal of Negro History 82, no. 2 (1997): 232–43.

Fussell, Melissa. “Dead Men Bring No Claims: How Takings Claims Can Provide Redress for Real Property Owning Victims of Jim Crow Race Riots.” William and Mary Law Review 57, no. 5 (2016): 1913.

Gordon, Fon L. “Early Motoring in Florida: Making Car Culture and Race in the New South, 1903-1943.” Florida Historical Quarterly 95, no. 4 (Spring 2017), 517-537.

Green, Elna C. “Hidden in Plain View: Eugene Poulnot and the History of Southern Radicalism.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 84, no. 3 (2006): 349–82.

Harrison, Jonathon. “The Rise of Jim Crow in Fort Myers, 1885-1930.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 94, no. 1 (2015): 40–67.

Hoffmann, Carlee. “A Perfect Storm: The Ocoee Riot of 1920.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 93, no. 1 (2014): 24–43.

Iorio, Pam. “Colorless Primaries: Tampa’s White Municipal Party.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (2001): 297–318.

Jackson, Jr., David H. “Booker T. Washington’s Tour of the Sunshine State, March 1912.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 81, no. 3 (2003): 254–78.

Jackson, Jr., David H., and Kimberlyn M. Elliott. “African Americans in Florida, 1870-1920: A Historical Essay.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 96, no. 2 (2016): 152–93.

Jennings, Warren A. “Sidney J. Catts and the Democratic Primary of 1920.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 39, no. 3 (1961): 203–20.

Jones, Maxine D. “The Rosewood Massacre and the Women Who Survived It.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 76, no. 2 (1997): 193–208.

———. “‘Without Compromise or Fear’: Florida’s African American Female Activists.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 77, no. 4 (1999): 475–502.

Lempel, Leonard R. “The Mayor’s ‘Henchmen and Henchwomen, Both White and Colored’: Edward H. Armstrong and the Politics of Race in Daytona Beach, 1900-1940.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (2001): 267–96.

Mormino, Gary R. “Florida Slave Narratives.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 66, no. 4 (1988): 399–419.

O’Rourke, Timothy G. Constitutional and Statutory Challenges to Local At-Large Elections, 17 U. Rich. L. Rev. 39 (1982).
Available at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol17/iss1/3.

Ostrow, Ashira Pelman. “One Person, One Weighted Vote.” Florida Law Review 68, no. 6 (November 2016): 1-43.  https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1340&context=flr.

Peek, Ralph F. “Election of 1870 and the End of Reconstruction in Florida.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 45, no. 4 (1967): 352–68.

Pruitt, Paul M. “Historic Notes and Documents: Judge Henry D. Clayton and ‘A Klansman’: A Revealing Exchange of Views.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 81, no. 3 (2003): 323–47.

Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Canter Brown. “’A Monument to the Progress of the Race’: The Intellectual and Political Origins of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1865-1887.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 85, no. 1 (2006): 1–41.

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Sellers, Sean and Gred Asbed. “The History and Evolution of Forced Labor in Florida Agriculture.” Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 5, no. 1 (Autumn 2011): 29-49.

Shofner, Jerrell H. “Custom, Law, and History: The Enduring Influence of Florida’s ‘Black Code’.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 55, no. 3 (1977): 277–98.

———. “Fraud and Intimidation in the Florida Election of 1876.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 42, no. 4 (1964): 321–30.

———. “The Labor League of Jacksonville: A Negro Union and White Strikebreakers.” Florida Historical Quarterly 50, no. 3 (January 1973) 278-282.

Vandiver, Margaret. “Florida Shame: The Lake City Lynching of 1911.” Criminal Law Bulletin 50, no. 4 (2014): 831–49.

Wilkerson-Freeman, Sarah. “The Second Battle for Woman Suffrage: Alabama White Women, the Poll Tax, and V. O. Key’s Master Narrative of Southern Politics.” Journal of Southern History 68, no. 2 (May 2002): 333-374.


Magazine Articles

Asip-Kneitschel, Stacey. “NYC purged 200,000 voters in 2016. It wasn’t a mistake.” City and State NY, November 8, 2018. https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2018/11/nyc-purged-200000-voters-in-2016-it-wasnt-a-mistake/177964/.

Couric, Katie. “The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.” National Geographic, April 2018.

First-Arai, Leanna. “How Soil Acts as a Living Witness to Racial Violence.” Yes! Magazine, February 27, 2019.

Herring, Troy. “A Century Removed: Truth and Reconciliation of the 1920 Ocoee Massacre.” Orange Observer, October 28, 2020. Accessed April 19, 2021. https://www.orangeobserver.com/article/a-century-removed-truth-and-reconciliation-of-the-1920-ocoee-massacre.

Hobbs, Allyson, and Nell Freudenberger. “A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum.” The New Yorker, July 17, 2018.

Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Ocoee Riot.” Essence, February 1989.

Ifill, Sherrilyn A. “How the South Memorializes- and Forgets- It’s History of Lynching.” Time, August 28, 2018.

Maraniss, Andrew. “Legacy of Bloody Election Day Lingers in Ocoee, Florida.” The Undefeated, November 4, 2016.

Rossiter, Jenna. “Digging up America’s Racist Past: UP Students Experience History of Social Justice and Civil Rights.” Up Beacon (University of Portland), n.d. Upbeacon.com.

Shaer, Matthew. “A New Memorial Remembers the Thousands of African-Americans Who Were Lynched.” The Atlantic, March 2018.

Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae. “The Ocoee Riot.” Essence, February 1989.

Smith, Jamil. “On a Hill in Alabama, the Lynched Haunt Us.” Rolling Stone, May 16, 2018. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/national-lynching-memorial-w519526.

Toobin, Jeffrey. “The Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row.” The New Yorker, August 22, 2016.

Ware, Adam. “’The Conflicting Testimony Continues:’ The Ocoee Riot, 95 Years Later.” Reflections, Spring 2015.

Articles from Newspapers

Baquero, Gabby. “Ocoee Debates Markers Memorializing 1920 Election Day Massacre.” West Orange Times & Observer. September 6, 2017.

Byrne, Jason. “Ocoee On Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre.” Florida History. November 23, 2014. Medium.com.

Clark, Jim. “Lynching: Florida’s Brutal Distinction.” Orlando Sentinel. March 1993.

Cotter, Holland. “Remembering Lynching’s Toll.” New York Times. June 3, 2018.

Dickinson, Joy Wallace. “Film Airs Ocoee’s Riot and Its Legacy.” Orlando Sentinel. November 10, 2002.

———. “Remembering Day of Darkness.” Orlando Sentinel. November 3, 2002.

Ericson, Jr., Edward. “Dead Wrong.” Orlando Weekly. October 1, 1998.

Fallstrom, Jerry. “Victims of Ocoee Violence Have Little Hope of Payment.” Orlando Sentinel. March 27, 1994.

Furman, Anna. “How Art Is Being Used to Explore America’s Shameful Legacy of Lynching.” The Guardian. July 13, 2017.

Gillespie, Ryan. “Marker Acknowledging Ocoee Massacre, July Perry’s Lynching, Planned in Orlando.” Orlando Sentinel. April 8, 2019.

Hamburg, Jay. “Ocoee Living Down Past 66 Years After Race Riot.” Orlando Sentinel. September 7, 1986.

Herring, Troy. “A Century Removed: Truth and Reconciliation of the 1920 Ocoee Massacre.” Orange Observer. October 28, 2020. Accessed April 19, 2021. https://www.orangeobserver.com/article/a-century-removed-truth-and-reconciliation-of-the-1920-ocoee-massacre.

Hudak, Stephen. “Dawn of a New Day. Ocoee City Hall Proclamation.” Orlando Sentinel. November 20, 2018.

———. “Ocoee Approves Marker for Election Day Massacre.” Orlando Sentinel. April 4, 2019.

———. “Ocoee Renounces Racist Past, Promises Harmony and Justice.” Orlando Sentinel. November 22, 2018.

———. “Ocoee Struggles with Racial Legacy as National Memorial Recognizing Lynching Victims Opens.” Orlando Sentinel. April 21, 2018.

———. “Recognition of Injustice.” Orlando Sentinel. June 22, 2019.

Kunerth, Jeff. “Report: Orange County Ranks 6th in Lynchings from 1877-1950.” Orlando Sentinel. February 11, 2015.

Laerty, James. “How White Americans Used Lynchings to Terrorize and Control Black People.” The Guardian. April 26, 2018.

Lee, Curtis. “‘Capital Punishment Is the Stepchild of Lynching.’ Here’s What Bryan Stevenson Hopes to Address with a Memorial Honoring Black People Who Were Killed.” Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2018.

Levin, Sam. “Lynching Memorial Leaves Some Quietly Seething: ‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.” The Guardian. April 28, 2019.

Luscombe, Richard. “‘The Sunrise City’: Florida Community Reconciles with History of 1920s Race Riot.” The Guardian. n.d.

Martin, Trish. “Allen Franks Family Home Burned in the 1920 Riot.” Orlando Sentinel. February 21, 1993.

McLeod, Michael. “Families Can’t Forget.” Orlando Sentinel. March 11, 2001.

Mezzei, Patricia. “Ex-Felons in Florida Must Pay Fines Before Voting, Appeals Court Rules.” New York Times. September 11, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/florida-felon-voting-rights.html.

Nichols, Mark. “Closed voting sites hit minority counties harder for busy mid-term elections.” USA Today. October 30, 2018. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/30/midterm-elections-closed-voting-sites-impact-minority-voter-turnout/1774221002/.

Pear, Robert. “Reagan Backs Voting Rights Act But Wants to Ease Requirements.” New York Times. November 7, 1981. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/07/us/reagan-backs-voting-rights-act-but-wants-to-ease-requirements.html. Accessed July 22, 2021.

Quintana, Craig. “Riot Still Painful for Ocoee.” Orlando Sentinel. November 2, 1998.

Robertson, Campbell. “A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.” The New York Times. April 25, 2018.

Samsock, Karen. “Hurston’s Vivid Tale of Riot Comes Alive in Magazine.” Orlando Sentinel. February 21, 1989.

Seguin, Charles. “How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings.” The New York Times. May 5, 2018.

Staples, Brent. “When Newspapers Justified Lynching.” The New York Times. May 5, 2018.

Stolberg, Cheryl Gay, and Caitlin Dickerson. “Hangman’s Noose, Symbol of Racial Animus, Keeps Cropping Up.” The New York Times. July 5, 2017.

Toohey, Grace. “New Florida Law to Recognize, Teach 1920 Ocoee Massacre.” Orlando Sentinel. June 25, 2020.

Weiner, Rachel. “Florida early voting cuts survive.” Washington Post. September 24, 2012. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2012/09/24/florida-early-voting-cuts-survive/.

Whitesides, John, and Julia Harte. “Explainer: Why vote by mail triggered a partisan battle ahead of November’s election.” Reuters. April 14, 2020. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-absentee-voting-explaine/explainer-why-vote-by-mail-triggered-a-partisan-battle-ahead-of-novembers-election-idUSKCN21W162.

Williams, Charley. “Let Ocoee Massacre Marker Provide a Learning Opportunity.” Orlando Sentinel. June 21, 2019.

Yee, Vivian. “Routine Voter Purge is Cited in Brooklyn Election Trouble.” New York Times. April 22, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/nyregion/routine-voter-purge-is-cited-in-brooklyn-election-trouble.html.


Online Articles

“The ACLU and Citizens United.” ACLU, 2021. https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-and-citizens-united.

Baker v. Carr. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/6.

“Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the Ballot Box.” ACLU, August 18, 2021. https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020/.

Byrne, Jason. “Ocoee on Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre.” Medium, November 23, 2014. Accessed April 19, 2021. https://medium.com/florida-history/ocoee-on-fire-the-1920-election-day-massacre-38adbda9666e.

“Cutting Early Voting is Voter Suppression.” ACLU, 2021. https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/cutting-early-voting-voter-suppression.

Evenwel v. Abbott. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/14-940.

“Federal Court Rules Florida Law That Undermined Voting Rights Restoration is Unconstitutional.” ACLU, May 24, 2020. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-florida-law-undermined-voting-rights-restoration-unconstitutional.

Johnson, Theodore R. “The New Voter Suppression.” Brennan Center for Justice, January 16, 2020. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-voter-suppression.

Lau, Tim. “Citizens United Explained.” Brennan Center for Justice, December 12, 2019. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained.

“Litigation to Protect Amendment 4 in Florida.” Brennan Center for Justice, September 11, 2020. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/litigation-protect-amendment-4-florida.

Mobile v. Bolden, 446 U.S. 55 (1980).

Ortiz, Paul. “Ocoee, Florida: Remembering ‘the Single Bloodiest Day in Modern U.S. Political History’.” Facing South (Blog), May 14, 2010. https://www.facingsouth.org/2010/05/ocoee-florida-remembering-the-single-bloodiest-day-in-modern-us-political-history.html.

Raymond, Jonathan. “Arguments in suit over Florida ‘poll tax’ law to be heard at 11th Circuit in Atlanta today.” 11 Alive, July 22, 2021. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/mccoy-v-desantis-florida-poll-tax-lawsuit-11th-circuit-atlanta/85-7344cc2c-e15f-4afd-b7a4-66e671caee98.

Reynolds v. Sims. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1963/23.

“The Florida Senate.” Redistricting – The Florida Senate. Accessed July 26, 2021. https://www.flsenate.gov/session/redistricting.


Oral Histories

Cravero, Geoffrey and Bracy, Randolph. Oral History of Randolph Bracy, September 14, 2021. https://youtu.be/8eJSK_36Vq4.

Cravero, Geoffrey and Hickey, Robert. Oral History of Robert Hickey, February 26, 2019. https://youtu.be/yhaH48fBDQs.

Gordon, Fon and Thompson, Geraldine. Oral History of Geraldine Thompson, October 26, 2021. https://youtu.be/2VaD70q5wvk.

Rivera, Tiffany and Oliver, George. Oral History of George Oliver, September 21, 2021. https://youtu.be/TO-PCk7PtjI.


Podcasts and Radio Segments

Clark, Jim. “Harry T. Moore: An Interview with Dr. Jim Clark.” RICHES Podcast Documentaries, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2463.

Clark, Jim, and Ben Green. “Harry T. Moore, Part 1.” RICHES Podcast Documentaries, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2488.

Clark, Jim, Ben Green, Juanita Barton, Bill Gary, Oscar Dickson, and Althemese Barnes. “Harry T. Moore, Part 2.” RICHES Podcast Documentaries, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2489.

Cravero, Geoffrey. “An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 1.” RICHES Podcast Documentaries, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2502.

———. “An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 2.” RICHES Podcast Documentaries, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2503.

Firpo, Julio. “Legacy of the Ocoee Riot.” RICHES Podcast Documentaries, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2454.

Kelley, Katie. “Icons of Hate.” A History of Central Florida, n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/5403.

Salzman, Jeff. “Burning the Karmas of Jim Crow; The Power of America’s New Peace and Justice Memorial.” The Daily Evolver, n.d. https://www.dailyevolver.com/2018/05/burning-the-karmas-of-jim-crow/?mc_cid=9522fb9ba7&mc_eid=39e8e96485.

Stapleton, Kevin. “Jim Crow Signs,” n.d. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/5510.


Theses and Dissertations

Dabbs, Jr., Lester. “A Report of the Circumstances and Events of the Race Riot on November 2, 1920 in Ocoee, Florida.” Stetson University, 1969.

Hershaw, Paul. “Ocoee and Its Pioneers: An Account of the Settlement and Growth of Ocoee, Florida 1857-1928.” University of Central Florida, 1991.

Padgett, James Andrew. “Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939.” MA Thesis, University of Central Florida. 2018.

Parrish, Vernon E. “Bloodshed, The Price of History.” Student Term Paper. University of Florida, 1949.

Parry, Katherine. “Constructing African American Histories in Central Florida.” University of Central Florida, 2008.