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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…
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In recent years the Legislature issued an apology and the governor pardoned the men posthumously.
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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…
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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.