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An Oral History with Curtis Michelson and Julian Chambliss (On the Ocoee Massacre)

2017

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Dr. Julian Chambliss and Curtis Michelson talk about their part in the amazing journey to discover a secret hidden since 1922. Lake Jenny Jewel near Orlando, Florida, was the site of a lynching amid the violence of the early part of the 20th century against African American citizens. Only in this case the victim escaped, and so birthed the events of the next 90 years, all from said victim, by the name of Oscar Mack.
Produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program