Wilmington Ten, 10 civil rights activists who were falsely convicted and incarcerated for nearly a decade following a 1971 riot in Wilmington, North Carolina, over school desegregation. Wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy, the Wilmington Ten—eight #African American high-school students, an African American minister, and a white female social worker—were victims of the racial and political turmoil during America’s civil rights era. Wilmington’s modern racial unrest began […]

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