The Martinsville Seven were a group of seven African American men from Martinsville, Virginia, who were convicted and executed for raping a white woman in 1949. At the time of their arrest, all but one was between the ages of 20 and 23. Ruby Stroud Floyd accused thirteen black men of raping her while she […]

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