Tuesday, September 3, 2013

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


Gilbert King. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (HarperCollins, 2012).

“Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI’s unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund files, King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader, setting his rich and driving narrative against the heroic backdrop of a case that U.S. Supreme Court justice Robert Jackson decried as ‘one of the best examples of one of the worst menaces to American justice.’”
Devil in the Grove Book Jacket

*Pulitzer Prize winner