Biography
Connie Tindall was among the Black student activists in Wilmington who participated in the 1971 school boycott and related protests seeking fair treatment and educational equality during a fraught period of school desegregation. Tindall became one of the defendants known collectively as the Wilmington Ten.
In connection with the violence and arson that flared during the protests—particularly the February 1971 firebombing of Mike’s Grocery—Tindall was charged and tried with the group in 1972. A jury convicted the Wilmington Ten on October 17, 1972; Tindall received a 31‑year sentence. The convictions were later overturned by the Fourth Circuit in 1980, and the group ultimately received pardons of innocence in 2012.
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North Carolina state courts
