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

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

by Gilbert King

2013

Before arguing Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall took on a case in 1949 Florida that put his life on the line. Four young Black men, the Groveland Boys, were targeted by a ruthless sheriff and the KKK after a false accusation of rape. This gripping account, drawing on newly uncovered files, reveals Marshall's courageous fight against racial injustice in the Deep South and its profound impact on the civil rights movement.

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