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

Name: Devil in the Grove Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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ISBN: 9780061792267

ISBN-10: 0061792268

ISBN-13: 9780061792267

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gilbert King

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A gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law, Devil in the Grove 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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.20" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Prologue



Mink Slide



Sugar Hill



Get to Pushing



Nigger in a Pit



Trouble Fixinï¿½ 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


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index