On November 10, 1952, 16-year-old Jeremiah Reeves was arrested and wrongfully convicted of the rape of Mabel Ann Crowder. According to the biographer, Joyce A. Hanson, Reeves was a high-school jazz-band drummer who worked as a grocery delivery boy. Crowder claimed rape after she was discovered in her home having relations with Reeves. Most people throughout the black […]

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