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'We're Truly Sorry': Fla. Apologizes for Racial Injustice of 1949 'Groveland Four' Rape Case
9/22/2018 ‘We’re truly sorry’: Fla. apologizes for racial injustice of 1949 ‘Groveland Four’ rape case - The Washington Post The Washington Post Morning Mix ‘We’re truly sorry’: Fla. apologizes for racial injustice of 1949 ‘Groveland Four’ rape case By Katie Mettler Katie Mettler Reporter covering breaking news and features Email Bio Follow April 19, 2017 In the summer of 1949, a 17-year-old white girl named Norma Padgett accused four black men of kidnapping her from a dark road in central Florida and then, in the back seat of their car, taking turns raping her. Neighbors quietly doubted the girl’s version of events, and others speculated that the elaborate, detailed account was merely a coverup for the bruises she’d collected from her husband’s suspected beatings. But this was the era of Jim Crow, in the middle of Lake County, where the local economy was sustained by orange groves that white men relied on black men to nurture. And there to ensure law and order was Willis V. McCall, a sheriff buoyed by his segregationist, union- busting, white supremacist reputation. Within days of Padgett’s accusations, three black men from the city of Groveland were in jail and a fourth, Ernest Thomas, was dead, shot and killed by an angry mob — led by McCall — who had chased him 200 miles into the Panhandle. In Groveland, black-owned homes were shot up and burned, sparking chaos so intense the governor eventually sent in the National Guard. Based on little evidence, a jury quickly convicted the living three. -
Read Our Full Report, Death in Florida, Now
USA DEATH IN FLORIDA GOVERNOR REMOVES PROSECUTOR FOR NOT SEEKING DEATH SENTENCES; FIRST EXECUTION IN 18 MONTHS LOOMS Amnesty International Publications First published on 21 August 2017 by Amnesty International Publications International Secretariat Peter Benenson House 1 Easton Street London WC1X 0DW United Kingdom www.amnesty.org Copyright Amnesty International Publications 2017 Index: AMR 51/6736/2017 Original Language: English Printed by Amnesty International, International Secretariat, United Kingdom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publishers. Amnesty International is a global movement of 3 million people in more than 150 countries and territories, who campaign on human rights. Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments. We research, campaign, advocate and mobilize to end abuses of human rights. Amnesty International is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. Our work is largely financed by contributions from our membership and donations Table of Contents Summary ..................................................................................................................... 1 ‘Bold, positive change’ not allowed ................................................................................ -
The Pulitzer Prizes 2020 Winne
WINNERS AND FINALISTS 1917 TO PRESENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Excerpts from the Plan of Award ..............................................................2 PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM Public Service ...........................................................................................6 Reporting ...............................................................................................24 Local Reporting .....................................................................................27 Local Reporting, Edition Time ..............................................................32 Local General or Spot News Reporting ..................................................33 General News Reporting ........................................................................36 Spot News Reporting ............................................................................38 Breaking News Reporting .....................................................................39 Local Reporting, No Edition Time .......................................................45 Local Investigative or Specialized Reporting .........................................47 Investigative Reporting ..........................................................................50 Explanatory Journalism .........................................................................61 Explanatory Reporting ...........................................................................64 Specialized Reporting .............................................................................70 -
Bill Analysis and Fiscal Impact Statement
The Florida Senate BILL ANALYSIS AND FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT (This document is based on the provisions contained in the legislation as of the latest date listed below.) Prepared By: The Professional Staff of the Committee on Criminal Justice BILL: SCR 920 INTRODUCER: Senator Farmer SUBJECT: Groveland Four DATE: March 3, 2017 REVISED: ANALYST STAFF DIRECTOR REFERENCE ACTION 1. Sumner Hrdlicka CJ Pre-meeting 2. JU 3. RC I. Summary: SCR 920 acknowledges the grave injustice perpetrated against Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas, who came to be known as the “Groveland Four,” exonerates the four men, offers a formal and heartfelt apology to these men and to their families; and urges the Governor and Cabinet to pardon Walter Irvin and Charles Greenlee. II. Present Situation: Concurrent Resolutions A concurrent resolution is a resolution that is adopted by both houses and is limited to procedural legislative matters and ratification of federal constitutional amendments.1 Florida Senate Rule 3.6 requires concurrent resolutions to contain a proper title, as defined in Article III, Section 6 of the State Constitution. Standard rules of capitalization apply. Concurrent resolutions are required to contain the resolving clause: “Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the House of Representatives Concurring:” Florida Senate Rule 4.13 requires that each concurrent resolution be read by title on two separate days before a voice vote on adoption, unless decided otherwise by a two-thirds vote of those Senators present. Exoneration and Pardon One of the legal definitions of “exoneration” is the absolving of a charge or imputation of guilt.2 The power to pardon is granted by the Florida Constitution to the Governor with the consent of 1 The Florida Senate, Glossary, Bills: Resolution: Concurrent Resolution (SCR, HCR), available at http://www.flsenate.gov/Reference/Glossary (last visited March 2, 2017). -
BILL ANALYSIS and FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT Please See Section IX. for Additional Information
The Florida Senate BILL ANALYSIS AND FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT (This document is based on the provisions contained in the legislation as of the latest date listed below.) Prepared By: The Professional Staff of the Committee on Rules BILL: CS/SCR 920 INTRODUCER: Rules Committee and Senator Farmer SUBJECT: Groveland Four DATE: April 13, 2017 REVISED: ANALYST STAFF DIRECTOR REFERENCE ACTION 1. Sumner Hrdlicka CJ Favorable 2. Brown Cibula JU Favorable 3. Sumner Phelps RC Fav/CS Please see Section IX. for Additional Information: COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE - Substantial Changes I. Summary: CS/SCR 920 acknowledges that Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas, the men who came to be known as the “Groveland Four,” were the victims of gross injustices and that their abhorrent treatment by the criminal justice system is a shameful chapter in this state’s history. The Legislature extends a heartfelt apology to the families of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas for the enduring sorrow caused by the criminal justice system’s failure to protect their basic constitutional rights. Lastly, the Legislature urges the Governor and Cabinet to expedite review of the cases of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas as part of their constitutional authority to grant clemency, including granting full pardons. Despite a lack of evidence or credible witnesses, the four men were charged with rape. Ernest Thomas escaped while under arrest, and law enforcement officers shot and killed him. Amidst an environment of inaccurately-obtained eyewitness identification, forced confessions, and indicting news reports, Mr. Greenlee, Mr. Irvin, and Mr. -
Devil in the Grove Review
CLSC BOOK REVIEW DEVIL IN THE GROVE BY GILBERT KING REPORTED BY MICHAEL J. GELFAND MONDAY JULY 6, 2015 How could this happen in America? It could not happen again, thank God? Two years ago, those were initial reactions to Gilbert King’s Pulitzer Prize winning history entitled Devil in the Grove. Why? Gilbert King writes of crimes in Groveland, Florida. These are in large part capital crimes. Accusations of rape that led to the death penalty. I could rhetorically state: what’s new? Before I proceed, please allow me a diversion, to shout: IT IS GREAT TO BE BACK AT CHAUTAUQUA! I have spoken from podiums, pulpits, bimas, risers, sidewalks and couches. The bucolic venues at Chautauqua are the most magnificent. The CLSC tradition on the Alumni Hall porch and lawn is splendid. Your consistent attention is amazing and appreciated, giving up your lunch hour on this busy day, between other lecturers who are truly outstanding. Thus, it is a special honor to return to this porch of literary and scientific renown yet another time, for which I extend my gratitude and appreciation to Jeff Miller. Jeff should be congratulated not just for his choice of speakers, but also for every year painstakingly dedication to the core principles of the CLSC, ensuring that our summers will challenge our minds and souls. Publication The CLSC teaches us to undertake critical analysis of the world around us and our communal and individual roles which are core Chautauquan values. As a side note, if literary criticism is an interest, then I urge you to seek out Mark Altshuler, and participate in his 16 year running Saturday Morning Short Story Discussion Course, a gem because it provides an intellectual tool, and charge to examine our roles, forcing us to forsake the witticisms of cable television’s talking heads, and to utilize the well tested tool of textual analysis, on Shabbat morning a secular typeFor of Torah study. -
The Unequal City: the Mass Criminalization of the Urban Poor
University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 12-2018 The unequal city: the mass criminalization of the urban poor. Elizabeth Michele Jones University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the Geography Commons, Political Science Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Recommended Citation Jones, Elizabeth Michele, "The unequal city: the mass criminalization of the urban poor." (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3077. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/3077 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE UNEQUAL CITY: THE MASS CRIMINALIZATION OF THE URBAN POOR By Elizabeth Michele Jones B.A., University of Louisville, 2004 M.A., University of Louisville, 2006 J.D., Georgetown Law Center, 2009 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban and Public Affairs Department of Urban and Public Affairs University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky December 2018 Copyright 2018 by Elizabeth Michele Jones All rights reserved THE UNEQUAL CITY: THE MASS CRIMINALIZATION OF THE URBAN POOR By Elizabeth Michele Jones B.A., University of Louisville, 2004 M.A., University of Louisville, 2006 J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2009 A Dissertation Approved on November 1, 2018 By the following Dissertation Committee _______________________________________________ Dissertation Director Dr. -
Thurgood Marshall)
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: RACE, POVERTY & DISADVANTAGE Professor Stephen B. Bright Yale Law School Class One - Part Three (Thurgood Marshall) Thurgood Marshall’s defense of In 1941, Marshall defended W.D. Lyons, a capital and other criminal cases black sharecropper, who was charged with the murder of three members of a white family in Thurgood Marshall had experiences as a Hugo, Oklahoma. A husband and wife and one of lawyer that no other Supreme Court justice had their children were shot, their throats were slit with regard to capital punishment. Just two years with an axe and the house burned down. Initially, after Powell v. Alabama and one year after he two white men were arrested and confessed to the graduated from Howard Law School, Marshall murders. However, the governor came under defended 25-year-old James Gross, one of three criticism when it was discovered that the two men black men charged with murder and facing the had been allowed to leave the nearby state prison death penalty in Prince Georges County, for visits to bars and prostitutes. The two white Maryland. At the trial in June 1934, in Upper men were set free on condition that they go to Marlboro, Marshall argued that Gross drove the Texas, and the governor’s office announced that car but it was the other two men shot the victim. the search would begin for the real culprit. The jury convicted all three of first degree murder and sentenced them to death. A few months later, Lyons had been hunting rabbits near the the sentence of one of the men – believed to be couple’s home. -
Award Winners
RITA Awards (Romance) Silent in the Grave / Deanna Ray- bourn (2008) Award Tribute / Nora Roberts (2009) The Lost Recipe for Happiness / Barbara O'Neal (2010) Winners Welcome to Harmony / Jodi Thomas (2011) How to Bake a Perfect Life / Barbara O'Neal (2012) The Haunting of Maddy Clare / Simone St. James (2013) Look for the Award Winner la- bel when browsing! Oshkosh Public Library 106 Washington Ave. Oshkosh, WI 54901 Phone: 920.236.5205 E-mail: Nothing listed here sound inter- [email protected] Here are some reading suggestions to esting? help you complete the “Award Winner” square on your Summer Reading Bingo Ask the Reference Staff for card! even more awards and winners! 2016 National Book Award (Literary) The Fifth Season / NK Jemisin Pulitzer Prize (Literary) Fiction (2016) Fiction The Echo Maker / Richard Powers (2006) Gilead / Marilynn Robinson (2005) Tree of Smoke / Dennis Johnson (2007) Agatha Awards (Mystery) March /Geraldine Brooks (2006) Shadow Country / Peter Matthiessen (2008) The Virgin of Small Plains /Nancy The Road /Cormac McCarthy (2007) Let the Great World Spin / Colum McCann Pickard (2006) The Brief and Wonderous Life of Os- (2009) A Fatal Grace /Louise Penny car Wao /Junot Diaz (2008) Lord of Misrule / Jaimy Gordon (2010) (2007) Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout Salvage the Bones / Jesmyn Ward (2011) The Cruelest Month /Louise Penny (2009) The Round House / Louise Erdrich (2012) (2008) Tinker / Paul Harding (2010) The Good Lord Bird / James McBride (2013) A Brutal Telling /Louise Penny A Visit -
History of Civil Rights in the United States: a Bibliography of Resources in the Erwin Library, Wayne Community College
History of Civil Rights in the United States: A Bibliography of Resources in the Erwin Library, Wayne Community College The History of civil rights in the United States is not limited in any way to the struggle to first abolish slavery and then the iniquitous “Jim Crow” laws which became a second enslavement after the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Yet, since that struggle has been so tragically highlighted with such long turmoil and extremes of violence, it has become, ironically perhaps, the source of the country’s greatest triumph, as well as its greatest shame. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, who would have sought to guide the reunion of the warring states with a leniency and clear purpose which could possibly have prevented the bitterness that gave rise to the “Jim Crow” aberrations in the Southern communities, seems to have foreshadowed the renewed turmoil after the assassination in 1968 of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had labored so long to awaken the nation non-violently, but unwaveringly, to its need to reform its laws and attitudes toward the true union of all citizens of the United States, regardless of color. In 2014, we are only a year past the observation of two significant anniversaries in 2013: the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, re-focusing the flagging Union’s purpose on the abolition of slavery as an outcome of the Civil War, and the 50th anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Little River United Church of Christ Church Council Meeting December 10, 2014
Little River United Church of Christ Church Council Meeting December 10, 2014 Present: Tom Ross, Moderator Cici Thompson, Moderator-elect Rob Peters, Endowment Fund & Stewardship (Absent), Past- Moderator Committees Ann Lingo, Clerk (Absent), Music Committee (Absent), Membership Clerk Heather Shackley, Communications Advisory Team Dave Curtis, Treasurer (Absent), Nominations & Appointments Gary Allen, Assistant Treasurer (Absent), at large Kent & Steve Rogers, Archivist/Historian (Absent), at large Mike Craven, Board of Christian Ed. (Vacant), at large Bruce Summers, Board of Deacons (Absent), Personnel Committee Karen Kleiber, Board of Outreach & David Lindsey, Senior Pastor Social Justice Hank Fairman, Transitional Pastor for Joe Christianson & Ben Northrup, Board Trustees Faith Formation Tom called the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m. As the evening devotional Tom asked those present to share Christmas moments they had recently experienced. REPORTS Moderator: Tom remarked that Advent is a very busy time of the year, and thanked those present for all their work. He reminded everyone that December 17th is the deadline for Annual Reports to be submitted to the church office. Senior Pastor: David started his report by noting last weekend there were five services including three worship services, the White Gift Service and a memorial service, and thanked the staff especially Hank, Ashton and Craig, as well as the Deacons for making it all happen. He expressed concern that staff and committees are communicating their 2015 needs in preparation for putting the budget together. David has attempted to address the current racial and social justice issues in sermons, and knows these issues are causing anguish for members. -
Bill Analysis and Fiscal Impact Statement
The Florida Senate BILL ANALYSIS AND FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT (This document is based on the provisions contained in the legislation as of the latest date listed below.) Prepared By: The Professional Staff of the Committee on Judiciary BILL: SCR 920 INTRODUCER: Senator Farmer SUBJECT: Groveland Four DATE: March 21, 2017 REVISED: ANALYST STAFF DIRECTOR REFERENCE ACTION 1. Sumner Hrdlicka CJ Favorable 2. Brown Cibula JU Pre-meeting 3. RC I. Summary: SCR 920 acknowledges the grave injustice perpetrated against Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas, the men who came to be known as the “Groveland Four.” Despite a lack of evidence or credible witnesses, the four men were charged with rape. Ernest Thomas escaped while under arrest, and law enforcement officers shot and killed him. Amidst an environment of inaccurately-obtained eyewitness identification, forced confessions, and indicting news reports, Mr. Greenlee, Mr. Irvin, and Mr. Shepherd were convicted of rape. Mr. Greenlee, just 16 years old at the time of the incident, received a sentence of life imprisonment. Juries sentenced Mr. Irvin and Mr. Shepherd to the death penalty. The concurrent resolution: Deems the four men exonerated; Offers a formal and heartfelt apology to the men and their families; and Urges the Governor and Cabinet to pardon Walter Irvin and Charles Greenlee. II. Present Situation: The Groveland Four On July 17, 1949, a 17-year-old white married woman Norma Padgett, and Willie Padgett, her estranged husband, went to the police and reported that Norma Padgett had been raped. They told police that on the night before, July 16, 1949, their car had broken down just outside of Groveland, Florida.