Virginia Gov. Posthumously Pardon Black Men Executed by All-White Juries in 1951
Yodit Tewolde sits down with Rudolph McCollum Jr., the great-nephew of Francis Desales Grayson and nephew to Booker T. Millner, two of the seven Black men who received a posthumous pardon by Virginia’s governor after they were executed in 1951 by all-white juries, who convicted them for raping a white woman.
Tewolde says that the group “were interrogated by police without lawyers and confessed under extreme duress and the threat of white violence.”
All this and more on “Making the Case.”
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