EXCLUSIVE: NAACP mounts national Wilmington Ten petition
The national NAACP has once again joined its North Carolina conference of chapters in supporting pardons of innocence for the Wilmington Ten. ...
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The national NAACP has once again joined its North Carolina conference of chapters in supporting pardons of innocence for the Wilmington Ten. ...
Read more ›Last May, just before papers were filed with the NC Governor’s Office petitioning for pardons of innocence, Connie Tindall was defiant. ...
Read more ›Produced by the Wilmington Ten Pardon's of Innocence Project, NC NAACP Pres. Rev. Dr. William Barber II talks about why justice must be done for the Wilmington Ten case. ...
Read more ›by CASH MICHAELS By unanimous vote, the national NAACP Board passed a resolution during its Florida retreat last weekend supporting the petition of pardons of innocence for the Wilmington Ten. Rev. William Barber, president of the NCNAACP and a national NAACP Board member, and veteran civil rights attorney Al McSurely, crafted the resolution language. Barber, who is also chair of the national NAACP's Politi ...
Read more ›Hundreds of citizens from across the nation are now expressing their support for the pardons campaign for the Wilmington Ten; joining congresspeople, state lawmakers and civil rights ...
Read more ›Thus far, at least two members of Congress; the heads of both the national and state NAACP; a prominent UNC-Chapel Hill law professor, and the head of the United Church of Christ have joined a growing number of supporters ...
Read more ›Seven survivors and the families of three deceased members of the Wilmington Ten - ten 1970's civil rights activists convicted forty years ago of conspiracy charges to commit violence ...
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