Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

by King, Gilbert
ISBN: 9780061792267
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Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never seen before.

As Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns did for the story of America's black migration, Gilbert King's Devil in the Grove does for this great untold story of American legal history, a dangerous and uncertain case from the days immediately before Brown v. Board of Education in which the young civil rights attorney Marshall risked his life to defend a boy slated for the electric chair--saving him, against all odds, from being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: King, Gilbert
  • ISBN: 9780061792267
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 464
  • Publication Year: 2013

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  • Blunt, sometimes painful tale of racism in the south

    Amanda R. - 1 year 9 months ago

    This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of the rape accusations leveled against four young black men by a teenage white woman in 1949 in segregated Florida. Thurgood Marshall was in the midst of building his reputation as "Mr Civil Rights" and faced blatant racism, death threats, and endless challenges as he attempted to gain a fair outcome for the defendants. The language used is an accurate reflection of the time and conditions but is still difficult to digest in this day and age. The injustices and flat out criminal acts committed by the prosecutors, judges, and especially the sheriff are astounding and infuriating. This is an engaging, frustrating, and entertaining read for anyone interested in civil rights, Thurgood Marshall, or true crime.

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