Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America - 5003

by Gilbert King, Unknown Author

In 1949, Florida's orange industry thrived, with citrus barons amassing wealth from cheap Jim Crow labor. To preserve order and profits, they relied on Willis V. McCall, a brutal sheriff who dominated Lake County. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl accused four young black men of rape, McCall swiftly pursued them. By day's end, the Ku Klux Klan arrived, torching black homes and driving hundreds into swamps, intent on lynching the 'Groveland Boys.' This sparked a chain of events that drew Thurgood Marshall, 'Mr. Civil Rights' and the most influential American lawyer of the twentieth century, into the deadly conflict.

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About the author

Gilbert Anthony King is an American writer and photographer.

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