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I added cites for every single sentence in this article. I will come back later to improve the article further. Cirt (talk) 13:55, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alford himself[edit]

It's true that Alford was a Black man living in the south, but the article mentions it right away, and when one reads "black man in the South at the height of the civil rights movement," one sort of expects that the rest of the article will make plain why that's important to know, and I don't think it's especially relevant in this article.

The court opinion mentions the ethnicity of all involved, but I'm not sure why, really, except as an excuse to mention that he was with a white woman (who is not described as a "sex worker" in the opinion). I'd like to rewrite it in a more anecdotal way. Matuko (talk) 23:11, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The information about Alford's death is not closely sourced and may be inaccurate. It cites an article in the Delaware Gazette (published in central Ohio, two states, 400 miles, and several mountain ranges away from central North Carolina) that says Alford died in prison in 1975, having served 22 years of a 30-year sentence. This cannot be true for a conviction he had received only 12 years earlier, in 1963. Furthermore, Find-A-Grave has a memorial for Henry C. Alford, a Black man who was dead on arrival at Forsyth Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on June 27, 1975, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Argatlam (talk) 03:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]