Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America / Gilbert King.
Author: King, Gilbert.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper, c2012.
ISBN: 9780061792281 (hardback)
0061792284 (hardback)
9780061792267 (trade paperback)
0061792268 (trade paperback)
9780062097712 (e-book)
0062097717 (e-book)
Description: p. cm.
Subject: Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration Florida Groveland.
Rape Florida Groveland.
African Americans Civil rights.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh.
Groveland (Fla.) Race relations.
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 -- My own curiosity -- You have pissed in my whiskey -- It's a funny thing -- No man alive or to be born -- All over the place, like rats -- Knows more law -- A genius here before us -- The colored way -- A place in the sun -- Epilogue.
