In this Jan. 30, 1951, demonstrators march in front of the White House in Washington, in what they said was an effort to persuade President Harry Truman to halt execution of the seven men.
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7 Black men were executed for an alleged rape in 1951. Decades later, they've been pardoned
A group of young Black men executed after being convicted by all-White juries of allegedly raping a White woman have been pardoned in Virginia 70 years after their deaths.
