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Martinsville Seven

"The Martinsville Seven were a group of young black men executed in 1951 in Martinsville, Virginia after being convicted of raping a white woman." The NAACP brought national attention to the case, arguing that Virginiaâ€™s legal code was racially biased since offenders who were white â€œseldom if everâ€ received the death penalty when convicted of rape.

Creator	Susan Bragg
Source	BlackPast.org
Publisher	BlackPast.org

URL	http://www.blackpast.org/aah/martinsville-seven-1949-1951

Tags	race
Date Added	June 21, 2016
Date Modifed	October 17, 2017

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