Martinsville Seven Black men who were executed for raping a white woman granted pardons 70 years after their deaths
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VIRGINIA Governor Ralph Northam has granted posthumous pardons to seven black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman. The “Martinsville Seven,” as the men became known, were all convicted of raping 32-year-old Ruby Stroud Floyd, a white woman who had gone to a predominantly black neighborhood in Martinsville, Virginia, […]
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