A state senator is seeking to expand a scholarship program set up more than 25 years ago because of a massacre in Rosewood to include people whose families were directly affected by the racially motivated 1920 Ocoee Election Day riot in Central Florida. Sen. Randolph Bracy, D-Orlando, said Wednesday he’s been in talks with House […]
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100 years ago in Ocoee, Black residents were murdered and driven off the land they owned, yet few know the story
. A new show at the Orange County History Center and a new state education bill aim to change that
