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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1966
Page
23
Bessie I Edgar, 75, finally received $5000 after 21 years seeking compensation for her husband’s death. The Army truck incident occurred in Tampa on June 3 1945. Congress had introduced bills in her favor, with one recently signed into law by President Johnson.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund plans a broad campaign against capital punishment for rape, arguing it is unfairly applied to Negroes and used as repression. A University of Pennsylvania study, supervised by Marvin Wolfgang and Anthony Amsterdam, examines 2,600 rape convictions since 1945 across 225 Southern counties to assess bias and judicial discretion.
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