Talk:Martinsville Seven

A fact from Martinsville Seven appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 November 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that an American civil rights group ran campaigns for Black prisoners (example pictured), told the world about the Martinsville Seven, protested a presidential inauguration, and accused the US of genocide at the UN?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Civil Rights Congress.

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badly written article, some seems to be deleted[edit]

this makes no sense. "According to historian Eric Rise, racism in the trial of the Martinsville Seven than in other "legal lynchings" in the South"

can the author (or a knowledgable editor) please fix this, the article should be readable — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.151.59 (talk) 16:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Real problems in article[edit]

I came upon this article to link it to a new but skeletal article on Martin A. Martin, who was involved in the appeal. Since this was a 2012 DYK article, I was disturbed by its relying upon a journal article and PhD dissertation (mostly without page cites), although Eric Rise wrote a full book about the case in 1995. Also, even quickly going through the book's chronology, this article missed or misrepresented lots -- and I simply don't have the time to fix it. Lots of passive constructions add to its problems, rather than hide them IMHO.Jweaver28 (talk) 23:12, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]