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Four Black men known as Florida’s “Groveland Four” have been exonerated after being wrongfully accused of raping a white teen in 1949. Lake County Circuit

The Groveland Four, who ranged in age from 16 to 26 at the time, were accused of raping a 17-year-old white woman in the central Florida town of Groveland in 1949.

A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young Black men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated amends for one

The men, known as the Groveland Four, were accused of raping a white woman in 1949. Their families said maybe the case will spark a reexamination of similar convictions from the Jim Crow era.

A Florida judge on Monday exonerated four Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a teenage White girl more than seven decades ago in what is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of the state's Jim Crow-era history.

Two of the four were killed before their trial and the other two were eventually paroled.

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(GROVELAND. Fla.) -- A judge in Florida posthumously exonerated four Black men, known as the

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(GROVELAND. Fla.) -- A judge in Florida posthumously exonerated four Black men, known as the "Groveland Four," who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in the central Florida town of Groveland in 1949. Their families have been fighting to clear their names for decades, and in October, Florida State Attorney Bill Gladson filed a motion to posthumously clear the "Groveland Four" of their criminal records ...

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - With Groveland Four exoneration, daughter sees father's name cleared after 72 years

A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated amends for one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of Florida’s Jim Crow era.