Lake County unveils monument remembering the Groveland Four
• Some 200 people gathered in front of the old courthouse in Tavares for a ceremony and to see the monument.
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• Some 200 people gathered in front of the old courthouse in Tavares for a ceremony and to see the monument.
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• In the past century, white-owned newspapers across the South published racist material that stirred up mobs, incited lynchings, and even congratulated those who committed them. In this century, some have expressed regret. This January, five days before they were posthumously pardoned by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Orlando Sentinel ran an apology for its treatment 70 years ago of the Groveland Four, four young black men who were wrongly accused of raping a young white woman in Lake County. Two were murdered, and the other two wrongly imprisoned. An example of the Sentinel’s ongoing inflammatory coverage: a front-page cartoon run just as a grand jury was convening showing four empty electric chairs under the words, “No Compromise!” The paper’s conduct was …
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• The Groveland Four have been pardoned. The nearly 70 year old case where four black men were falsely accused of raping a white woman was discussed by the state’s clemency board Friday.
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• The Groveland Four have become a symbol of racial injustice in the Jim Crow Era. Florida state leaders want to acknowledge the state’s failure with a pardon.
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• Senator Marco Rubio is calling on in-coming state leaders to pardon four black men wrongly accused 70 years ago.
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• TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida House is formally apologizing for decades of abuse at a north Florida reform school and to the families of four young black men accused of raping a white woman 68 years ago in what’s now seen as a case of racial injustice.
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• A formal apology for the so-called Groveland Four is gaining momentum in Tallahassee.
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