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The Groveland Four exoneration could not have happened if Walter Irvin had not survived a shooting by Lake County Sheriff Willis V. McCall.
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Orlando Morning Sentinel On Monday (November 22), a court finally exonerated four young Black boys of the bogus accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago. This provided a partial and long-needed atonement for one of the most horrific miscarriages of justice during Florida’s Jim Crow era. At […]
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.
Two of the four were killed before their trial and the other two were eventually paroled.