Devil in the Grove is the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for
General Nonfiction.
Arguably 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 blacks who dared envision a future for
themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt,
hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the
Groveland Boys."
Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the
"Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the
fight despite continuous death threats against him.
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,
Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights
crusader.
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