Judge in Lake County clears the Groveland Four, restores ‘the innocence afforded them by the law’
• Family members hugged and sobbed with relief after the hearing.
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• Family members hugged and sobbed with relief after the hearing.
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• A judge in Lake County will hold a hearing today on whether to posthumously clear the names of the Groveland Four. The young Black men were wrongly prosecuted — and two of them were shot to death — following the alleged rape of a 17-year-old white girl in 1949. For some perspective on this case, WMFE’s Joe Byrnes spoke with Gilbert King, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Devil in the Grove” brought the story to national attention again. .
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• “The reason that I’m so fired up about this,” Alan Hays says, “is because it’s disgraceful that the American voters are being abused this way.”
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• In recent years the Legislature issued an apology and the governor pardoned the men posthumously.
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• It was one of 120 Rosenwald schools in Florida and thousands across the segregated South built to educate Black children.
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• Three hundred ninety-four names have been added to the memorial, including 295 who died last year. Among those, 62 percent were killed by COVID-19.
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• Commissioner Josh Blake raised the issue of roadside surveillance last month after the crime-fighting technology company Flock Safety set up 98 cameras reading license plates in Lake County.
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