It’s been a busy month for those in charge of writing — and rewriting — America’s history of civil rights abuses. Last week we reported on the case of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, two men wrongfully charged with assassinating Malcolm X in 1965 who have finally had their records cleared more than 50 years later.
Now comes news of the overturning of another historic case involving Black men wrongly accused of a crime they didn’t commit.
Terry Spencer of the Associated Press reported that on Monday, Nov. 22, a Florida judge “officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated amends for one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of Florida’s Jim Crow era.”
