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Portland State
U N IV E R S IT Y
Living the Legacy: The Dream Never Stops
Join us fo r a week o f events as we celebrate
Dr. M artin Luther King Jr.
PSU WILL HOST OVER A DOZEN EVENTS
JANUARY 14-21 IN MEMORY OF DR. KING:
•
Civil rights scholar Dr. Cornel W est will
speak on campus at 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 15.
Students from PSU and other colleges will
participate in Day of Service on Monday,
January 21.
32 years after a federal court
Pardon Called
Victory for Justice
Wilmington 10
were falsely
accused activists
T R IB U T E
lanuary 9, 2013
The N A ACP is calling the New
Y ear’s Day pardon o f a group of
civil rights activists known as the
W ilm ington 10, a victory for ju s ­
tice.
N orth C arolina Gov. Beverly
Perdue’s pardoned the group af­
ter the N A ACP organized a p eti­
tion that received more than 15,000
signatures.
“This pardon brings closure
to a case m arred by racism and
injustice,” said NAACP President
and CEO Benjam in Todd Jealous.
“I applaud Gov. Beverly Purdue
for her leadership in righting this
disgraceful wrong and congratu­
late the N A ACP North Carolina
State Conference, NAACP m em ­
bers, and activists around the
country for their work to raise
aw areness about this case.”
In 1971,10 young activists, later
deem ed the W ilm ington 10, were
falsely accused and fram ed for
crim es they did not com m it. They
were convicted and sentenced to
a com bined 300 years in prison. In
1980 a federal court overturned
their convictions but the charges
rem ained on their records and their
names were never cleared.
"These young people were non­
violent protestors fighting for edu­
cational equality. They were framed,
wrongfully convicted and incarcer­
ated” said Rev. William Barber, presi­
dent of the North Carolina State
Conference of the NAACP. "These
unjust convictions were due to rac­
ist manipulation of the court system
and extraordinary and blatant ra­
cially motivated prosecutorial mis­
conduct.”
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