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The family of Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teen who was executed in Pennsylvania after being convicted of murder in 1931, have filed a lawsuit nearly 100 years after his death.
May 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and ...
CNN has reached out to the district attorney’s office for comment on the lawsuit. ... Robare’s body was discovered by her ex-husband Fred, who also worked at the Glen Mills School, according ...
The Glen Mills Schools was a youth detention center for juvenile delinquents located near Glen Mills in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, [1] for boys between 12 and 21 years of age. The school was founded in 1826 [2] and was the oldest surviving school of its type in the United States until all residents were ...
Alexander McClay Williams. Alexander McClay Williams (July 23, 1914 – June 8, 1931) was an African-American teenager wrongfully convicted and executed for the 1930 murder of 33-year-old Vida Robare, a matron of the Glen Mills reform school he attended, in Pennsylvania. Williams confessed to the murder, although he later recanted his confession.
Larry P. v. Riles. 495 F.Supp. 926. Larry P. v. Riles is a California court case in which the court held that IQ tests could not be used to place African-American students in special education classes. Five African-American children had been placed in special classes for the "educable mentally retarded", based on low IQ test scores.
Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing of a white woman in her cottage on the grounds of his reform school. Vida Robare, 34, had been stabbed 47 times.
v. t. e. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 400 F. Supp. 2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005) [1] was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design (ID), ultimately found by the court to not be science. [2][3] In October 2004, the Dover ...