Devil in the Grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Paperback - 2013
by King, Gilbert
- Used
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Details
- Title Devil in the Grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- Author King, Gilbert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NY
- Date 2013-02-19
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4184854-6
- ISBN 9780061792267 / 0061792268
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights, National Association for the Advancement of
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011033757
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
From the rear cover
Devil in the Grove is the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young blacks who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys."
Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him.
Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.
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- Choice, 10/01/2012, Page 0
