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

by King, Gilbert.

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New York : HarperCollins, c2012.

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Florida -- Groveland.

Rape -- Florida -- Groveland.

African Americans -- Civil rights.

Groveland (Fla.) -- Race relations.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=BFFD4B18-1867-46CD-8506-753221AAF1EA This title is available online; click here to access

9780062097712 (electronic bk.)

0062097717 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (x, 434 p. : ill.)

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.

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