7 decades later, Martinsville Seven marker unveiled in front of old Virginia courthouse

The old Henry County Courthouse is now the Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center and Museum, and inside there is now a display recounting the day on Feb. 8, 1949 when Ruby Floyd, a white woman, told police she had been raped.

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