COLLAPSED IN FRONT OF THE FOOT LOCKER RIGHT NOW. DEPUTIES SAY THEY DON’T KNOW WHO THE SHOOTER
ANTS.
IT’S NOW TIME FOR THE WEAK LINK
AT NEWS. 00:00AM MORNING ANCHOR
JUSTIN WARMOTH.
>> THIS IS THE WEEKLY ON
CLICKORLANDO DOT COM WITH
JUSTIN WARMOTH. GOOD MORNING.
I’M JUSTIN WARMOTH BLACK
HISTORY MONTH BEGINS TOMORROW
IN NEW 6 WILL BE BRINGING YOU
STORIES EVERY DAY HIGHLIGHTING
THE PEOPLE PAST AND PRESENT
WHO HAVE MADE AN IMPACT ON
CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS MORNING,
LARRY COLLINS AND THE PRESIDENT
OF THE ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER
OF THE FLORIDA VOTERS LEAGUE
IS HERE TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE
AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO DIED IN
PURSUIT OF HAVING THE RIGHT
TO VOTE.
>> LET’S TALK WHAT YOU’RE DOING
RIGHT NOW AND HOW
YOU’RE HELPING VOTERS IN THE
CENTRAL FLORIDA ESPECIALLY
BLACK VOTERS.
>> WELL, I’M THE PRESIDENT OF
THE ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER
OF THE FLORIDA VOTERS LEAGUE
MEETING AND THERE ARE 3 GOALS
TO WE ONE IS TO REGISTER.
INDIVIDUALS. THE VOTE IS THE
SECOND IS AN EDUCATIONAL
PROCESS OF EDUCATING THE
COMMUNITY ABOUT NOT JUST SIMPLY
THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTING BUT
ALSO WHAT IS ACTUALLY
HAPPENING POLITICALLY. WHAT ARE
THE ISSUES IN CAN TRYING TO
HELP IF YOU KEEP THE COMMUNITY
ABOUT THAT IN THE 3RD IS TO
EMPHASIZE THAT ONCE YOU ARE
REGISTERED ANY WARNING VOTER
THAT YOU ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED
IN THE BECAUSE SIMPLY
REGISTERING AN INDIVIDUAL
TO VOTE DOESN’T GUARANTEE THAT
THAT INDIVIDUAL WILL SO THAT’S
THOSE ARE THE GOES. WE SAID
EDUCATION REGISTRATION AND
OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OFFICIAL IN
THE PRESS. LET’S GET INTO THE
AND SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE
FOUGHT.
>> TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
SO MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS OVER
THE LAST.
SEVERAL YEARS, 100 100 YEARS OR
FIGHTING FOR THE CHANCE TO VOTE
AND HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.
WHAT WHAT STICKS OUT TO
IF YOU WANT TO LOCALIZE IT ON
FROM THE CENTRAL FLORIDA ASPECT
OF OF THE PEOPLE WHO PAVED THE
WAY FOR THE STATE EVEN HAPPEN.
>> I THINK I
IN THE SIDE IN A FIGHT TO THEIR
MANY ONE WOULD BE JULY. PERRY.
FROM OCOEE IN THE OTHER WOULD
BE HURT EVEN MORE FROM MIMS,
FLORIDA. MISTER WANTED TO VOTE
IN THE
1920 NATIONAL ELECTION AN END,
THOUGH HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO
ACTUALLY WENT TO COURT TO.
I THINK IT MAKE THAT HAPPEN
FOR HIM IN HIS EFFORTS NEARLY
RESULTED IN HIS DEATH AND THE
DEATH OF.
SEVERAL OTHERS AND
AFRICAN AMERICANS
WERE FORCIBLY.
>> REMOVED FROM OCOEE. HAD TO
LEAVE BECAUSE YOU WERE BEING.
>> BUILD UP THEIR IN THEIR
LIVES THREATENED. SO IT TOOK
4050, YEARS BEFORE AFRICAN
AMERICANS EVEN RETURNING TO THE
CITY OF OCOEE. SO THAT’S A
RECENT PHENOMENON IN IN THE
LAST 40 YEARS. I THINK PEOPLE
STARTED RETURNING THERE AND
IT’S OF
GROWING COMMUNITY TODAY IT IS A
MYSTERY OF A 100 YEARS AGO.
MISTER MOORE. WAS THE
FIRST STATE PRESIDENT OF THE
NAACP AND HE STARTED CREATING
NAACP BRANCHES THROUGHOUT THE
STATE IN THE 1930’S. PART OF
THAT WAS TO REGISTERED VOTERS
IN AND HE IS ONE OF THE
FOUNDERS OF WHAT IS. IT IS THE
INITIAL
ORGANIZATION THAT HE CAME TO
FLORIDA VOTERS THE PROGRESSIVE
VOTERS LEE IS. BUT HE AND ONE
OTHER PERSON STARTED IN FLORIDA
BACK IN THE 1940’S AND THAT
WAS TO REGISTER VOTERS IN TO.
REGISTER
BLACK VOTERS AND THEM IN A
PARTICULAR PARTY. AND THERE WAS
A REASON FOR THAT SO IT WAS NOT
A NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION WHEN
IT STARTED. IT IS TODAY, BUT IT
WASN’T BIN. HIS GOAL WAS TO
REGISTER AS MANY AFRICAN
AMERICANS AS POSSIBLE IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY. PEOPLE SEE IF
YOU IF YOU WERE RUNNING FOR
GOVERNOR OR ATTORNEY GENERAL
E WHOEVER THE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE. THAT IS LIKELY TO BE
THE NEXT GOVERNOR FOR
THE NEXT THAT GENEROUS EVER.
AND SO HE WANTED AFRICAN
AMERICANS HAVE INFLUENCE WITHIN
THE PARTY THAT WAS CONTROLLING
THE STATE AND DURING THE PERIOD
OF ABOUT 5 YEARS OR SO. HE
REGISTERED OVER 400,000.
INCREDIBLE. YEAH.
>> I MEAN, THAT’S IT’S
UNBELIEVABLE. AND AND TO TO
THINK THAT. YOU KNOW, BACK TO.
JULY PERRY THE OCOEE MASSACRE.
PEOPLE NEED TO REALIZE. AND I
THINK THAT THIS WAS JUST BURIED
IN HISTORY AND ONLY.
REALLY IN THE LAST SEVERAL
YEARS. HAS THIS BECOME WELL
KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC.
BUT THIS WAS ONLY 100 YEARS
AGO WHEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED
BECAUSE THEY FOUGHT FOR THE
RIGHT TO VOTE.
I MEAN, THAT IS AND THAT IS
SOMETHING THAT I THINK THAT
REALLY.
PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS
THAT THIS WAS NOT THAT LONG
AGO, ONLY
100 YEARS.
>> ONLY 100 YEARS. WELL, ONLY
IS ONLY BEEN A 100 YEARS THAT
WOMEN
ALLOWED TO KNOW JUST A FEW AGO,
WOMEN WERE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE.
SO YOU HAD THE SUPPRESSION
OF BLACK VOTER PARTICIPATION IN
THE ABSOLUTE NONE ALLOWANCE
OF WOMEN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
>> THE SUPPRESSION BLACK
SUPPRESSION VOTER SUPPRESSION
TODAY.
LOWS. WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU
SEE? WHEN IT COMES TO VOTER
SUPPRESSION. IN THIS COUNTRY
TODAY.
DISAPPOINTING. WHAT IS ACTUALLY
HAPPENING.
JUST RECENTLY WITH OUR NATIONAL
ELECTION IN NOVEMBER 2020.
>> WE HAD THE HIGHEST.
THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS VOTING
EVER.
A 155 MILLION AMERICANS VOTED
VOTED IN A PUTTING THEIR AT
RISK. HEALTH AND POTENTIALLY
THEIR LIVES AT RISK.
AT THE SAME TIME YOU SEE
EFFORTS TO MAKE VOTING MUCH
MORE DIFFICULT.
IN IF THERE IS REGRETTABLY.
BUT WE HAVE TO BE REAL ABOUT
IT. THERE. A RACIAL ELEMENT
TO THIS VOTER SUPPRESSION AS
IT WAS A 100 YEARS AGO. LOOK.
AMERICA HAS TO DEAL WITH.
IT’S.
ITS PROBLEMS.
IN ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES IN
AMERICA IS RACE.
YOU I
AM DISAPPOINTED THAT WE ARE
STILL TALKING
ABOUT RACE AND THIS BUT IT IS.
AND AND IT MAY BE UNCOMFORTABLE
FOR SOME.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE EFFORTS
MADE. POST THE NATIONAL
ELECTION. TO BASICALLY POINT,
OH, PHILADELPHIA MILWAUKEE,
DETROIT AND LAND. ALL OF THOSE
ARE THE MAJORITY BLACK CITIES.
THOSE ARE THE TARGETS BEFORE.
THE CHALLENGE LEGITIMACY TO
THE ELECTION AND THERE WAS NO
HE ELECTION FRAUD. YES, BUT
THAT IT CAME THE THE
SUBJECT, THE THIS IS WHAT SOME
ARE NOW CALLING THE BIG BUT BUT
THAT BIG LIE. WAS SUPPORTED.
AND IT RESULTED IN.
THIS. SEE ON OUR NATION’S
CAPITAL. I.
THAT SNOW A LITTLE OVER 3 WEEKS
AGO IN I IM.
MORE DISTURBED TODAY THAT I WAS
ON THE DAY WATCHING IT. I DO
BELIEVE THAT NOT ONLY THAT THAT
HE SUPPORTS THE ACT THAT
DISSIPATES IN IT. BUT THOSE WHO
INCITED WHO.
THEY DON’T NEED TO BE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT.
>> COMING UP, MR COLLETT AND
WE’LL TALK ABOUT THE CASE OF
THE GROVELAND 4 AND WHY
EXONERATION IS THE NEXT STEP IN
THE PUSH TO FIX ONE OF
FLORIDA’S MOST BRUTAL
INJUSTICES. WE’LL BE RIGHT
>> THIS IS THE WEEKLY ON CLICKORLANDO DOT COM WITH JUSTIN WARMOTH. WELCOME BACK.
THE CASE OF THE GROVELAND 4 HAS
REMAINED A DISTURBING EXAMPLE
OF RACIAL INJUSTICE FROM THE
JIM CROW ERA FOR BLACK MAN
WRONGLY CONVICTED.
>> OF A WHITE WOMAN IN 1949
TODAY. THOSE MEN HAVE BEEN
PARDONED BY THE FLORIDA
CABINET. BUT THERE ARE GROWING
CALLS FOR THEM TO BE
EXONERATED. HERE’S THE
PRESIDENT OF THE ORANGE COUNTY
CHAPTER OF THE FLORIDA VOTERS
LEAGUE, LARRY COLLETON.
WELL, THAT.
>> STORY SORT
GOOD SAID WHERE I STARTED BY
TALKING ABOUT EVERY TEAM
THAT INCIDENT HAPPENED IN JULY.
1949.
THE
1949. THE TRIAL BEGAN SEPTEMBER EARLY
SEPTEMBER. 1949. ONE WAS SHOT
BY A POSSE LED WITH
A CALL HE WAS KILLED IN MADISON
COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE OTHER 3
WERE TRIED. ONE WAS A JUVENILE.
AND HE WAS CONVICTED AND
SENTENCED TO LIFE AND THE 2
ADULTS, BOTH OF WHOM. WORLD WAR
2 VETERANS.
SHEPHERD AND IRVIN ROAD WERE
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
NO, THEIR SENTENCES WERE
REVERSED BY THE U.S. SUPREME
COURT. IN 1951.
THE SHERIFF WENT TO RAYFORD
TO TAKE THEM UP FOR THE
RETRIAL.
THEY WERE SHACKLED.
HE CLAIMED ON HIS WAY BACK ONCE
HE GOT INTO LAKE COUNTY BUT
NOT IN THE LAKE COUNTY JAIL
THAT HE HAD
CAR PROBLEMS. AND WHEN HE GOT
OUT TO CHECK THESE 2 SHACKLED
MAN. JUNE 10 AND THEN FORCED
HIM TO DEFEND HIS LIFE. A
SHOOTING THEM. SHEPARD WAS
KILLED. THEY THOUGHT THOMAS WAS
GOOD, BUT HE ACTUALLY SURVIVED.
AND HE GAVE HIS TESTIMONY, BUT
HE WAS NOT BELIEVED.
NO. WHEN YOU USE SHEETING TOOK
PLACE. MISTER MOORE BEGAN TO
SING OF LETTERS TO THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL STATE OF FLORIDA TO
THE GOVERNOR OF A STATE OF
FLORIDA TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES
THAT HOW CAN WE CONTINUE TO
HAVE WILLIS MCCALL HAS. SHARES.
WITHIN WEEKS.
ON ON HIS 25TH WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY. MISTER MOORE WAS
ASSASSINATED. THIS HOME WAS
BOMBED. IN THAT HOME WITH HIS
WIFE, HIS MOTHER AND HIS OLDEST
DAUGHTER.
HE DIED ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
NIGHT. HIS WIFE MAKE ANOTHER 8
OR 9 DAYS UNTIL JANUARY SECOND,
1952.
YOU KNOW THOSE, YOU KNOW, NO
ONE HAS EVER BEEN HELD
ACCOUNTABLE TO THE NUMEROUS
INVESTIGATIONS EVEN WITHIN.
I THINK WHEN CHARLIE CHRISTMAS,
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, HE DID
AN INVESTIGATION. IT IDENTIFIED
WHAT THEY BELIEVE TO BE THE
SUSPECT AND NO ONE EVER WAS
TRIED FOR MORRIS SAYS SO MUCH.
BUT IT IS THE GROVELAND CASE
AND THE FACT THAT.
MISTER MOORE WAS YOU’RE REALLY
TRYING TO GET WILLIS MCCALL.
WE MOVED.
LOOK, IT IS SUSPECTED THAT THE,
WHICH WAS BURIED. PREVALENT IN
ORANGE COUNTY.
>> THE PARDONING BACK TO BACK
TO THAT. YOU KNOW, THAT THERE
HAVE BEEN THERE’S A BOOK
WRITTEN ABOUT DOUBLE IN THE
ABOUT MCCALL IN THE CASE AND
WHAT HE HAS THE AUTHOR OF THAT
BOOK IS IS TRULY REMARKABLE AND
I THINK LED TO THE PARDONING
OF THESE GENTLEMEN EXONERATION,
THOUGH, AND. YOU KNOW, SOME
PEOPLE MIGHT SAY, HEY, WHAT IF
THEY’VE BEEN PARDONED. THAT’S
THAT’S GOOD. BUT WHY IS
EXONERATION EVEN MORE
IMPORTANT. BECAUSE.
IT MEANS THEY DIDN’T DO IT.
THE PARDON.
>> SO AS YOU DID IT. BUT WE’RE
LETTING YOU. WE’VE BEEN IN.
FORGIVE YOU FOR IT. AND
EXONERATIONS. HE DIDN’T DO IT.
>> THIS THE GROVELAND 4 WERE
CALLED THE LITTLE SCOTTSBORO
BECAUSE BACK IN THE 1930’S IN
SCOTTSBORO ALABAMA. 9 MEN WERE
ACCUSED OF.
9 BLACK MEN WERE ACCUSED OF
BUT BREAKING A WHITE WOMAN.
SO THE WORD OF THE WHITE WOMAN
OR SONS. THESE 4 BLACK MEN.
>> 2 WERE SHOT TO DEATH.
>> AND THE OTHER 2 SPENT A
NUMBER OF YEARS IN PRISON
BEFORE THEY WERE RELEASED.
>> ARE YOU SURPRISED TO THE
DURING DURING THE HEARINGS AT
THE CAPITOL.
>> YOU KNOW.
NO, IT’S IRONIC. SHE’S THE ONLY
ONE STILL LIVING.
>> AND IS IRAQ. YOU KNOW, AS WE
MOVE ON TO AS WE WRAP THIS UP.
I JUST WANTED.
SORT OF PUT A BUTTON ON THIS
AND ASKED YOU.
BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE
CELEBRATE AND REFLECT
DIFFERENTLY. SO WHEN IT COMES
TO PERSONAL YOU HOW YOU WILL
VIEW AND HOW YOU. APPRECIATE
BLACK HISTORY MONTH. WHAT?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU.
AS A CHILD. IT WAS CALLED
NEGROES HISTORY WEEK.
AND THEN AS AN ADULT, IT BECAME
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH AT MY REFLECTION
IS I DON’T KNOW PARTICULARLY
LIKE.
JUST THE INCREASES IN THE MONTH
OF FEBRUARY BECAUSE SEA BLACK
HISTORY IN AMERICA IS AMERICAN
HISTORY. AND SO WE SHOULD.
BE DISCUSSED SEEING IT ALL THE
TIME. NOT JUST IN THE MONTH OF.
FEBRUARY ONE. IT SHOULD BE A
PART OF. REGULAR CURRICULUM.
BECAUSE IT’S AMERICAN HISTORY.
WE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN IF YOU
DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY, IF YOU
DON’T KNOW THE HISTORY. HISTORY
HAS A WAY OF REPEATING ITSELF.
AND SOME OF THIS IS
NOT GOOD. AND I THINK THAT IF
YOU
LOOK AT IN 1/6/2021, CONDUCT.
AND THAT’S. WE HAVEN’T DONE
THAT. THAT’S EQUIVALENT TO.
THE FIRING ON FORT SUMTER IN
CHARLESTON AND BEGAN. MERRICK
AND CIVIL WAR.
THE THE CURRENT PRESIDENT,
PRESIDENT BIDEN DESCRIBED OUR
CONDUCT IN AMERICA IS AN
UNCIVIL WAR.
I DON’T THINK THERE WAS
ANYTHING UNCIVIL ABOUT WHAT
OCCURRED. ON JANUARY 6. SO WE
ALL. NEED TO TAKE NOTE WHAT
OCCURRED AND THAT THE ATTITUDE
WHY THAT HAPPENED. IT HAPPENED
BECAUSE PEOPLE DIDN’T LEAVE
A LIE. AND IT’S REALLY FOR US
ALL TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.
>> SO I WANT TO THANK MISTER
COLLISON. FIRST TIME THIS WEEK.
AGAIN, WE HAVE A SPECIAL
SECTION OF OUR WEB SITE
DEDICATED TO THE HISTORY OF THE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN
CENTRAL FLORIDA JUST HEAD TO
CLICK ORLANDO, DOT COM SLASH
BLACK HISTORY MONTH. I’M JUSTIN
WARMOTH. WE’LL GET A GREAT
SUNDAY.
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