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Ocoee! is a powerful coming-of-age story that bears witness to an event that occurred in a small town near Orlando, Florida during the 1920 Presidential election. In response to African Americans attempting to exercise their right to vote, a mob of white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members went on a rampage through a black neighborhood, killing a number of people and burning many homes. The survivors, nearly 500 of them, fled, never to return. For more than 60 years, Ocoee became a white-only town. This fictionalized account chronicles the massacre and the events surrounding it as seen through the eyes of a spirited, young white girl, Georgia Kambel. Her diary brings to life the community and the many people involved. Her great granddaughter, Cassie, who is writing a thesis about what happened, supplements the entries with her own research, connecting the distant past to our times. What emerges is a poignant tale, filled with love, laughter, anger, violence, heartbreak, tears, and painful realizations about the deep divide of racial relations in the rural South nearly a century ago. But Ocoee! doesn't merely document a distressing chapter of American history. Ultimately, it is about the power of forgiveness, understanding and healing that points toward the possibility of a better future for all of us today.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Ocoee!
• Author: MYRA MCKINNIE
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9781938842344
• ISBN: 9781938842344
• ID: 16318127
• Publisher: Bardolf & Company
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2017

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