Word: tarboro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard Egg. Having set that inquiry in motion, Dees hurried over to Tarboro, N.C., where three young black men, known as the Tarboro Boys, are charged with the 1973 rape of a white woman, raising echoes of the infamous Scottsboro Boys case in the '30s. The defendants claim that their victim consented; she denies it. Convicted and condemned to death, the three won a reversal on technical grounds. Last week they were supposed to face the same charges again, but the trial was postponed until next month...