"Though he soon recanted & insisted he was innocent, #JeremiahReeves was convicted & sentenced to death after a 2-day trial during which the all-white jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes.” SOURCE: eji.org (A History of Racial Injustice)
#AmericanHistory
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"Police strapped the frightened boy into the electric chair and told him that he would be electrocuted unless he admitted to having committed all of the rapes white women had reported that summer. Under this terrifying pressure, he falsely confessed to the charges in fear."
#JeremiahReeves
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Facts: “In Jul 1951, #JeremiahReeves, who was a 16-yr-old high school student at the time & Mabel Ann Crowder, a white woman, were discovered having sex in her home. Ms. Crowder claimed she had been raped by Jeremiah, and he was immediately arrested and taken to Kilby Prison for ‘questioning.’
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#OTD in #History
1958 March 28: #JeremiahReeves, Executed
Context: "22-yr-old Black man, Reeves was executed by the State of AL after cops tortured him 'til he gave a false confession as a 16-year-old child.” SOURCE: calendar.eji.org
ugly #AmericanHistory
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