'It's all or nothing': Families of 4 black men accused of 1949 rape ask for exoneration

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'It's all or nothing': Families of 4 black men accused of 1949 rape ask for exoneration
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While Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Earnest Thomas were posthumously pardoned of the crime last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the four have not been exonerated.

in Florida 70 years ago gathered Friday for the unveiling of a memorial that lays bare the"gross injustices" they endured.

"It's hard to put into words and have you understand the pain and hardships this injustice has caused this family for 70 years," Gerald Threat, a nephew of Irvin's, said at the unveiling. Irvin died in 1969, a year after he was released on parole.

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