Florida town, students resist letting state’s war on Black
Channel: newsque
Date: 2023-08-19

The small town of Ocoee, Florida is fighting to preserve its Black history against the state's war on it, according to the search results. Ocoee is the site of an infamous race massacre that occurred in 1920, the result of white people's outrage over a pair of Black men attempting to vote. Students in the town are fighting to ensure that the state's efforts to erase Black history are not successful. The Florida Board of Education recently approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state's public schools, which critics have called "a big step backward." Vice President Kamala Harris has also spoken out against the state's efforts to whitewash Black history, warning of a "national agenda" to do so. Historian Marvin Dunn has taken up the fight to preserve Ocoee's Black history, and students in the town are working to ensure that the state's war on Black history does not succeed.

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(Mehwish Mukhtar)