The next day, 16-year-old Charles Greenlee, Sam Shepherd, and Walter Irvin were in jail.
The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four men, Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were falsely accused of rape in Lake County, Florida, USA, in 1948.
In 1949, he and three other black men were accused of raping a white woman in Groveland, Florida.
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In 1955, his sentence was commuted to life in prison by Florida governor LeRoy Collins.
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Walter Lee Irvin was born in Lake County, Florida.
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