Three Black men were lynched. A rural Virginia county has cleared their names.
Zann Nelson worked almost 20 years to shed light on three lynchings more than a century ago in Culpeper, Virginia. A judge ...
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Men who were lynched in Virginia more than a century ago are innocent, judge finds
The Washington Post reported Friday that the men were Charles Allie Thompson, William Thompson and William Grayson. Each was ...
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More than a century later, Culpeper judge declares lynched men innocent
More than a century after three Black men were lynched for crimes they didn’t commit, a Culpeper County judge has officially ...
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Men who were lynched more than a century ago are innocent, judge finds
(AP) — Three Black men who were lynched by mobs in Virginia during the ... William Thompson and William Grayson. Each was killed in rural Culpeper County, which is about 75 miles (121 kilometers ...