{"product_id":"ocoee-9781938842344","title":"Ocoee!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOcoee \u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful coming-of-age story that bears witness to an event that occurred in a small town near Orlando, Florida during the 1920 Presidential election. In response to African Americans attempting to exercise their right to vote, a mob of white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members went on a rampage through a black neighborhood, killing a number of people and burning many homes. The survivors, nearly 500 of them, fled, never to return. For more than 60 years, Ocoee became a white-only town.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis fictionalized account chronicles the massacre and the events surrounding it as seen through the eyes of a spirited, young white girl, Georgia Kambel. Her diary brings to life the community and the many people involved. Her great granddaughter, Cassie, who is writing a thesis about what happened, supplements the entries with her own research, connecting the distant past to our times. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is a poignant tale, filled with love, laughter, anger, violence, heartbreak, tears, and painful realizations about the deep divide of racial relations in the rural South nearly a century ago. But \u003cem\u003eOcoee \u003c\/em\u003e doesn't merely document a distressing chapter of American history. Ultimately, it is about the power of forgiveness, understanding and healing that points toward the possibility of a better future for all of us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bardolf \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50506901192978,"sku":"9781938842344","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_794c5a18-1b51-4530-b648-f8ba1428c977.jpg?v=1730855224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ocoee-9781938842344","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}