Description “July Perry was an affluent man who went to the polls in Ocoee to vote in 1920 and was turned away and told that he had not paid his poll tax, and he debated that, saying ‘I paid every tax I was supposed to pay,’ and because of the debate, and it got heated, he left, went home, and a mob followed him and shot into his home. He returned fire. Some of the members of the mob were killed. He was taken out of his home in front of his wife and children, and brought to the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando. The mob followed, took him out and hung him to a tree on Orange Blossom Trail, left his body there, riddled it with bullets to serve as an example to other African Americans who might contemplate voting, that this is what would happen.”