• The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four African American men, Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd, and Walter Irvin. In July...
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    Tavares to Orlando. In 1919, Tavares incorporated as a town. In 1949, the Groveland Four, were wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1949. One was killed...
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  • consecutive terms from 1944 to 1972. He gained national attention in the Groveland Case in 1949. In 1951, he shot two defendants in the case while he was...
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    Groveland is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States. The population was 18,505 at the 2020 census. It is located at the intersection of State Road...
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    Groveland is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is thirty-four miles north of Boston. At the 2020 census, it had a population of...
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  • Groveland may refer to: Groveland, California Groveland, Florida Groveland, Idaho Groveland, Illinois Groveland, Indiana Groveland, Kansas Groveland, Massachusetts...
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    January 11, three days after taking office, he posthumously pardoned the Groveland Four, a group of black men falsely convicted of rape in 1949. The same day...
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  • from 1947 to 1960. A book written about the NAACP's defense of the Groveland Four by Gilbert King won the Pulitzer Prize and discussed her mixed reporting...
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    by the Trilogy Company. Law portal New York City portal 1980s portal Groveland Four List of wrongful convictions in the United States Martinsville Seven...
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  • Ernest Lee Thomas (born 1949), American actor Ernest Thomas (Groveland Four) of the "Groveland Four" who were accused of rape in 1949 Ernest Ivy Thomas Jr....
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    massacre William Thomas Zeigler - Mass murderer and family annihilator Groveland Four - Four men accused of raping a woman and beating her husband Gary Ray Bowles...
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    Park Groveland Leesburg Mascotte Minneola Mount Dora Tavares Umatilla Astatula Howey-in-the-Hills Lady Lake Montverde Altoona Astor Ferndale Four Corners...
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    three days after taking office, DeSantis posthumously pardoned the Groveland Four, a group of black men falsely convicted of rape in 1949. The same day...
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  • Walter Irvin (category People from Groveland, Florida)
    United States Army veteran of World War II, was one of the so-called Groveland Fourfour young African-American men of Lake County, Florida who, in a racially...
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  • Shepherd may refer to: Samuel Shepherd, British barrister Sam Shepherd (Groveland Four), American man killed by Sheriff Willis V. McCall Sam Shepherd (basketball)...
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  • Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America is a 2012 non-fiction book by the American author Gilbert King...
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    Volume 15, J.E. Robinson, 1946, p. 33 Chapin, Linda (2016-02-09). "Groveland Four lawyer deserves belated respect". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2023-11-25...
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    1955, Collins personally reviewed the case of the Groveland Four, a case that had been unjust to four black men. Two of these men had been murdered during...
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    As a Lake County, Florida judge he was involved in the trials of the Groveland Four. He denied an attempt to prosecute sheriff Willis McCall who shot two...
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    linebacker Chris Thompson, NFL running back Ernest Thomas, one of the Groveland Four, killed by a sheriff's posse in Madison in July 1949, exonerated in...
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  • unfit to stand trial. Judge Truman Futch, who was also involved in the Groveland Four trial and who denied an effort to prosecute Sheriff Willis McCall after...
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  • a second confession 11 hours later involuntary. Chambers v. Florida Groveland Four Lyons v. Oklahoma, 322 U.S. 596 (1944). Sharfstein, Daniel J. (March...
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  • 14, 2016. L. A. (Spring 1999). "Trio of Angels, Three students help free four death row inmates". Northwestern University Magazine. Archived from the original...
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    Groveland Shaker Village was a settlement of Shakers in Groveland, New York under the bishopric of Groveland. In 1826, a Shaker group was organized that...
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  • ethnic and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods. The four neighborhoods, Beltway, Dover, Archer Park, and Groveland are found on the South Side...
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    the Groveland Case, four young African American men – Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas – known as the Groveland Four, were...
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  • Retrieved 6 February 2018. McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "The Only Four Hundred" (PDF). The New York Times. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29...
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    Andover: Precincts 1, 7A and, 8 Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton...
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    Boyd and Parker ambush was a minor military engagement in what is now Groveland, New York on September 13, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War...
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  • Charles Greenlee may refer to: Charles Greenlee, one of the Groveland Four Charles Greenlee (musician) (1927–1993), American jazz trombonist This disambiguation...
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