Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America

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.

Item details

ISBN: 0062692321
ISBN: 9780062692320
Physical Description: print
xii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Edition: First Harper Perennial Olive edition.
Publisher: New York : Olive Editions, 2017.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-641) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.