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Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America
Title:
Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America
Author:
King, Gilbert.
ISBN:
9780061792281

9780061792267
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :

Harper,

[2012]

©2012
Physical Description:
x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 -- 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.
Abstract:
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.
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Publication Date:
2012