Devil in the Grove
Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Publication
2017-10-10 - Harper Perennial
Word Count
164,000 words, Guess
Page Count
656 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100062692321
- ISBN-139780062692320
- Better World Books9780062692320
- Open LibraryOL27383297M
Classifications
- LCCKF224.G76K56 2018
Description
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as "Mr. Civil Rights," into the fray. Associates thought it was suicidal for him to wade into the "Florida Terror" at a time when he was irreplaceable to the burgeoning civil rights movement, but the lawyer would not shrink from the fight--not after the Klan had murdered one of Marshall's NAACP associates and Marshall had endured threats that he would be next. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader against a heroic backdrop.--From publisher description.
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