November 2, 1920: The Ocoee Massacre takes place, in Ocoee, Florida, about 12 miles west of Orlando. When black people tried to vote in that day's Presidential election, won by Warren Harding, they were attacked, and most of their owned homes and businesses were burned down. There were an estimated 35 deaths, and it has been called "the single bloodiest day in modern American political history."
I learned about this massacre... in 2020, on its 100th Anniversary. It wasn't taught to me in any school.
There were no scores on this historic day: The baseball season was over, the football season was in midweek, the NHL season didn't start until December 22, and the NBA wasn't founded until 1946.
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