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Author King, Gilbert.

Title Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America / Gilbert King.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, c2012.

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Winters Adult Nonfiction  305.89607 KIN    CHECK SHELVES
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
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 masher -- In any fight some fall -- My own curiosity -- You have pissed in my whiskey -- It's a funny thing -- No man alive or to be born -- All over the place, like rats -- Knows more law -- A genius here before us -- The colored way -- A place in the sun -- Epilogue.
Summary Chronicles a little-known court case in which Thurgood Marshall successfully saved a black citrus worker from the electric chair after the worker was accused of raping a white woman with three other black men.
Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Florida -- Groveland.
Groveland (Fla.) -- Race relations.
Rape -- Florida -- Groveland.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
ISBN 9780061792281 : HRD $26.99
0061792284 : HRD $26.99
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