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The Wilmington Ten
1971
Wilmington, North Carolina
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Nine Black students and a white woman organiser were convicted of firebombing a grocery during unrest over school desegregation and given sentences totalling 282 years. Amnesty International called them political prisoners. Every prosecution witness later recanted, and notes surfaced showing the prosecutor had selected jurors by race. The convictions were overturned in 1980, and the governor pardoned all ten as innocent in 2012.
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