Florida says sorry to ‘Groveland Four,’ wrongly convicted of rape in 1949
A decades long chapter of injustice is finally closing in Florida. In 1949, four black men — Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Ernest Thomas — were accused of raping Norma Padgett, a 17-year-old white girl. There were doubts about Padgett’s testimony from the onset, but in the era of Jim Crow, a jury […]