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It illuminates the danger and strategy behind landmark civil-rights lawyering.
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King2013 selection · Nonfiction
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
An account of Thurgood Marshall's defense of four Black men falsely accused in Jim Crow Florida.
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You want courtroom history with urgent moral stakes.
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