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Author King, Gilbert, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Olive Editions, 2017.

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.896 KIN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.896 KING    Check Shelf
Edition First Harper Perennial Olive edition.
Description xii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Note "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 637-641) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993. (OCoLC)fst00013977
Groveland Four Trial (Groveland, Florida : 1949-1952) (OCoLC)fst01896330
Groveland Four Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952.
Trials (Rape) -- Florida -- Groveland -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Florida -- Groveland -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration. (OCoLC)fst00895034
Trials (Rape) (OCoLC)fst01156393
Florida -- Groveland. (OCoLC)fst01215354
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0062692321 (paperback)
9780062692320 (paperback)
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