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Martinsville Seven Pardoned 70 Years After Execution

by Anthony W. Accurso

Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) signed posthumous pardons for seven Black men denied due process in a criminal case following a rape allegation involving a white woman in Martinsville, Virginia, in 1949.

On January 8, 1949, 32-year-old Ruby Stroud Floyd alleged she was raped by 13 Black ...

 

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