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Apr 27, 2017 · The so-called Groveland Four — Charles Greenlee, Ernest Thomas, Walter Irvin and Samuel Shepherd — were accused of raping a white woman in 1949 near the city of Groveland in Lake County, Fla ...
Jan 11, 2019 · The Groveland Four were a centerpiece of the book Devil in the Grove, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 and helped bring their story into the national spotlight. On Friday, family members of ...
Nov 22, 2021 · 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.
THE GROVELAND FOUR. On the morning of July 16, 1949, a young Lake County farm wife accused four young black men of rape. The case of “The Groveland Four” played out over several years, and led to a race riot, torture, multiple murders, two trials, a Supreme Court reversal and the assassination of a Florida civil rights leader.
Nov 22, 2021 · The tragic tale of the Groveland Four has been recounted by author Gary Corsair in his 2004 book, “Legal Lynching: The Sad Saga of the Groveland Four” and Gilbert King’s Pulitzer Prize ...
Aug 1, 2021 · Accidental Activist: Justice for the Groveland Four is a book that is full of inspiration and determination. I was unaware of this story of 4 African American young men who were convicted of raping a 17 year old white girl and assaulting her husband in 1949 in Florida . But that is not the story.
*On this date in 1949, the episode and legal case of the “Groveland Four” began. This was a wrongful arrest, murder, and conviction of four young Black men. The episode played out when Norma Padgett, a 17-year-old white woman, and her husband Willie said that on that date, they had been attacked by four young Black men […]
