This courageous journalist exposed rampant corruption and racism among Lake County's leading law enforcement and judicial officials during the Jim Crow era of the 1950s. Her groundbreaking coverage revealed widespread cases of planted evidence, . . . — — Map (db m261097) HM
In July 1949, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas known collectively as the "Groveland Four" were accused of crimes in Lake County. Eyewitness accounts, records, and subsequent investigations revealed that these men . . . — — Map (db m145768) HM
The July 16, 1949, a 17-year-old white woman and her estranged husband reported to police that she had been abducted at approximately 2:30 a.m., driven approximately 25 minutes to a dead-end road, and raped by four black men. By the end of the . . . — — Map (db m179835) HM
