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

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0061792268 ISBN13: 9780061792267 Release Date: February 2013 Publisher: Harper Perennial Length: 448 Pages Weight: 0.10 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.0" Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"A must-read, cannot-put-down history." -- Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Kl