Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America / Gilbert King.
2012
KF224.G76 K56 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America / Gilbert King.
Author
King, Gilbert.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061792281
0061792284
9780061792267 (pbk.)
0061792268 (pbk.)
0061792284
9780061792267 (pbk.)
0061792268 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Harper, c2012.
Language
English
Description
x, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
KF224.G76 K56 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.896/073075922
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-416) and index.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize, 2013.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Mink slide
Sugar Hill
Get to pushin'
Nigger in a pit
Trouble fixin' to start
A little Bolita
Wipe this place clean
A Christmas card
Don't shoot, white man
Quite a hose wielder
Bad egg
Atom smasher
In any fight some fall
This is a rape case
You have pissed in my whiskey
It's a funny thing
No man alive or to be born
All over the place, like rats
Private parts
A genius here before us
The colored way
A place in the sun
Epilogue.
Mink slide
Sugar Hill
Get to pushin'
Nigger in a pit
Trouble fixin' to start
A little Bolita
Wipe this place clean
A Christmas card
Don't shoot, white man
Quite a hose wielder
Bad egg
Atom smasher
In any fight some fall
This is a rape case
You have pissed in my whiskey
It's a funny thing
No man alive or to be born
All over the place, like rats
Private parts
A genius here before us
The colored way
A place in the sun
Epilogue.