Word: groveland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the years, Sheriff McCall has built up quite a reputation for himself on the Negro question. In 1951 he made national news by shooting two Negro suspects in the Groveland, Fla., rape case. This fall he took up the cause of the race-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, was warmly welcomed by the N.A.A.W.P.'s Organizer Bryant Bowles as an "expert" in race relations. For such an expert, the case of the Platts was made to order. McCall decided to pay them a little visit...
...drove a new Buick on frequent long trips all over the state-on N.A.A.C.P. missions which many a Southern white man could only have construed as dangerous and inflammatory. His voice was one of the loudest raised in protest against the handling of the controversial Groveland rape case in which four Negroes were accused of attacking a 17-year-old housewife, back in 1949. When Lake County. Sheriff Willis McCall killed one of the defendants and badly wounded another while transporting them, handcuffed, along a lonely road last November (TIME, Nov. 19), Moore went further: he campaigned openly...
...issue that has long worried thoughtful U.S. editors. The issue: Do sensational newspaper stories in criminal cases endanger the right of an individual to a fair trial? The question was highlighted as the court reversed the conviction of two Negroes sentenced to death for raping a 17-year-old Groveland, Fla. housewife. (A third defendant, sentenced to life imprisonment, did not appeal.) While the unanimous reversal was based on the fact that Negroes had been excluded from the trial jury, Justice Robert H. Jackson went further in his concurring opinion. Wrote Jackson: Even if Negroes had not been excluded...