After leaving July Perrys house Mose Normand there is only a few accounts of anyone seeing him and one of which comes from Fred Maxwell, who was thirteen at the time of the massacre. According to Maxwell, Normand was good friends with his father and right after leaving July Perrys house Normand went straight to see Maxwells father. Allegedly Normand told the elder Maxwell that he spoke with judge Cheney and was informed that what the white men were doing was unconstitutional and he had a right to sue once he escaped town safely. Fred Maxwell stat that his father simple told Normand to leave town as fast as he could and start a new life, and according to Fred Maxwell that is exactly what Normand did, he went back into his convertible and drove
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White was the child of two former slaves, but he himself had a pale completion due to him also having European heritage on both sides of his family, though he himself identified as an African American. As a result of his fallacious appearance White was able to walk among the southern Democrats of Ocoee undisturbed by racist whites and was able to ask about the events that had unfolded. To Whites dismay the people of Ocoee were, as he himself put it, “still giddy with victory” over the events that transpired during the massacre. From his investigation Walter Francis White had determined that about 60 African Americans had been killed that day in the Ocoee massacre. The Southern Democrats of Ocoee, Florida felt no guilt whatsoever when it came to explaining the massacre that had just transpired days ago to White, they were proud of their actions and saw what they did a way of preserving their southern way of life. Walter Francis White made one other revealing discovery right before his departure from Ocoee, allegedly Mose Normand was offered 1,000 dollars per acre for his orange grove, bean, and cucumber farm only to refuse some time before the massacre. This new information in addition to the fact that whites took over all African American property after the massacre suggests that there were ulterior motives to the extreme violence of November 2nd
White was the child of two former slaves, but he himself had a pale completion due to him also having European heritage on both sides of his family, though he himself identified as an African American. As a result of his fallacious appearance White was able to walk among the southern Democrats of Ocoee undisturbed by racist whites and was able to ask about the events that had unfolded. To Whites dismay the people of Ocoee were, as he himself put it, “still giddy with victory” over the events that transpired during the massacre. From his investigation Walter Francis White had determined that about 60 African Americans had been killed that day in the Ocoee massacre. The Southern Democrats of Ocoee, Florida felt no guilt whatsoever when it came to explaining the massacre that had just transpired days ago to White, they were proud of their actions and saw what they did a way of preserving their southern way of life. Walter Francis White made one other revealing discovery right before his departure from Ocoee, allegedly Mose Normand was offered 1,000 dollars per acre for his orange grove, bean, and cucumber farm only to refuse some time before the massacre. This new information in addition to the fact that whites took over all African American property after the massacre suggests that there were ulterior motives to the extreme violence of November 2nd