Devil in the grove, Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America, Gilbert King
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Devil in the grove, Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America, Gilbert King
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-641) and index
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illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Devil in the grove
Nature of contents
bibliography
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985283267
Responsibility statement
Gilbert King
Sub title
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
Table of 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
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