Mack Ingram

Released
Date of death:1973
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:North Carolina
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Mack Ingram

Biography

Mack Ingram was a Black North Carolina farmer convicted of assault for allegedly leering at a white girl from a distance of seventy-five feet — a case that became a national symbol of Jim Crow absurdity and injustice. He was given a two-year sentence and appealed.

Case

Charges: Assault on a female (by 'leering').
Arrested: Jun 4, 1951
Sentenced: 1951
Incarcerated: 1951
Sentence: Two years (appealed; conviction ultimately overturned).
Convicted: Yes

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