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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
The judge was replaced and the case retried. The new judge ruled frequently against the defense. For the third time a jury—now with one African American member—returned a guilty verdict. The case was sent to the US Supreme Court on appeal. It ruled that African Americans had to be included on juries, and ordered retrials. [5]
"Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring was born to black African female slaves (either still in the state of slavery or freed) in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Non-Black men, usually the slave ...
This is a list of youngest people confirmed by reliable sources to have deliberately killed another human being. Individuals in this list are documented to be younger than age 13. Individuals in this list are documented to be younger than age 13.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (born c. 1961) Joseph Kony Head of the Lord's Resistance Army Incumbent Assumed office August 1987 Preceded by Office established Personal details Born 1961 (age 62–63) Odek, Northern Region, British Uganda Children 42 (as of 2006) Military service ...
In 2005, the 109th Congress of the United States Senate passed Resolution 39, [12] which was a formal apology to African Americans for Congress's failure to pass any kind of anti-lynching legislation despite over 200 anti-lynching bills having been introduced to Congress. The resolution was issued before the descendants of Anthony Crawford ...
Moses Sithole (born 17 November 1964) is a South African serial killer and rapist who committed the ABC Murders. [1] It is believed that he is so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.
First African-American woman named Poet Laureate of the United States: Rita Dove; also the youngest person named to that position; First African-American appointed Director of the National Drug Control Policy: Lee P. Brown; First African-American Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: David Satcher [283]