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

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

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]