{"product_id":"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","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner\u003cbr\u003eof the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A must-read, cannot-put-down history.\" -- Thomas\u003cbr\u003eFriedman, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguably the most important\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmerican lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebringing the landmark suit \u003cem\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/em\u003e before\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003echange the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Florida's orange\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eindustry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003elabor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003emurderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003egroves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecame to be known as \"the Groveland Boys.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAssociates thought it was\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esuicidal for Marshall to wade into the \"Florida Terror,\" but the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eyoung lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eagainst him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wealth of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003enever-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efiles, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gilbert King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46042871365701,"sku":"BS-LIB-792267","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9780061792267-HD.jpg?v=1792262173","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/en\/products\/devil-in-the-grove-thurgood-marshall-the-groveland-boys-and-the-dawn-of-a-new-america","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}