Books Details
Author : Gilbert King Pages : 464 pages Publisher : Harper Perennial Language :
ISBN-10 : 0061792268 ISBN-13 : 9780061792267
Books Descriptions
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 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
