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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
State v. Ben Chavis (1972) helped bring international attention to US racial injustice.
During 1971 black Wilmington, North Carolina high school students held nonviolent civil rights protests. But violence erupted when officials rejected their plan for a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial service. After unidentified snipers burned a white grocery and fatally shot one man, a white female and nine black males, including United Church of Christ minister Benjamin Chavis, were arrested, unjustly convicted, and sentenced to prison an aggregate 282 years. In 1980 a Federal Court overturned their convictions. The state ceased its prosecution in 1981 and pardoned them in 2012.
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