Willis V. McCall Essays

My Thoughts about the Groveland Case The Groveland Case during the late 40s and early 50s was an event that highlights how the justice system at that time and to this day is mostly against African-Americans than it is protecting them. It is mostly about a case in Lake County, Florida back in which Thurgood Marshall defended four young African-American men, Earnest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepard and Walter Irvin known as the Groveland 4 that were accused of raping a white woman named

who were supposed to uphold the law. This police brutality led to their coerced confessions which convicted them in front of an all-white jury. Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were on their way to the retrial, personally driven by Sheriff Willis V. McCall, the same Sheriff who had originally arrested these men and participated in their assault. Along the way, the Sheriff claimed that the defendants had tried to grab his gun, and he shot them in self-defense. Mr. Irvin survived and would recollect