Samuel Shepherd, a 22-year-old African American man from Umatilla, Florida, was killed on November 8, 1951. Shepherd was one of the Groveland Four, a group of four Black men falsely accused of raping a white woman, Norma Padgett, in 1949. The case attracted significant attention and highlighted the racial injustices prevalent in the American South during that era. Shepherd, along with Walter Irvin, Charles Greenlee, and Ernest Thomas, was wrongfully convicted despite a lack of credible evidence.
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