White woman who wrongfully accused ‘Groveland Four’ of rape in Jim Crow-era South dies at 92
...County Sheriff Willis McCall (center) escorts Willie Padgett and Norma Padgett to the Office of the State Attorney for questioning on the couple's alleged attack by four Black men in 1949. - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images There were doubts about Padgett Upshaw’s testimony from the onset, but in the era of Jim Crow, a jury convicted the men without evidence of...
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