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

345–46
    as director of National Association for the Advancement of White People, 341
    elections of, 77–78, 357
    FBI investigation of, 138–43, 284
    finds prisoner who claims Groveland Boys planned escape, 263–64
    C. Greenlee confession and, 178–80
    Groveland Boys trial and, 147–49, 167, 169, 173
    high-speed chase following Groveland Boys trial and role of, 174–77, 184
    indictment and suspension of, by Governor Reubin Askew, 357
    link to assassination of H. T. Moore, 278, 357
    opposition to commutation of W. Irvin sentence, 350
    protest and change of plan for, to transport W. Irvin to retrial, 262–63
    response to clemency and commutation of W. Irvin’s sentence, 355
    response to Supreme Court decision on Groveland Boys case, 220–22, 227
    response to Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education , 339–40, 341
    shootings of S. Shepherd and W. Irvin by ( see Groveland Boys, shootings of S. Shepherd and W. Irvin)
    relationship with Ku Klux Klan, 248, 282
    E. Thomas manhunt and murder, and role of, 113–14, 115–20
    threat to F. Williams from, 168–69
    unhappy with press coverage, 183–84, 256–57
    white mob violence, black exodus from Groveland, and role of, 85–93, 97–99, 108–9
    McCarthy, Joseph, 153
    McCarthy, Terence (news reporter)
    on Groveland Boys case, 132–33, 161, 204
    on shootings of S. Shepherd and W. Irvin, 238
    on southern peonage system, 96–97
    McCarty, Dan (Florida governor), 341
    McCready, Esther, desegregation case of, 185–86
    McDonald, Harry, 227–28
    McGrath, J. Howard (U.S. attorney general), 280
    McKinney, Leroy, connection to Lake County bolita operations, 114
    McLaurin, George, desegregation case involving, 187–90, 198
    McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents , 187–90, 198
    McLeod, Don (sheriff, Marion County, FL), 329
    Manhattan Project, 34
    Mapp v. Ohio , 294
    Margold, Nathan Ross (NAACP attorney), 106–7
    Margold Report, 106–7, 198
    Marion County, Florida, W. Irvin retrial moved to, 269, 286–87
    Marshall, Aubrey (brother of Thurgood Marshall), 46
    Marshall, Fearless (uncle of Thurgood Marshall), 2
    Marshall, George C. (U.S. general), 206
    Marshall, Norma (mother of Thurgood Marshall), 46, 337
    Marshall, Thorney Good (grandfather of Thurgood Marshall), 2
    Marshall, Thurgood (NAACP attorney)
    appeals process, and his strategy of establishing precedent in, 48–49, 123, 210 , 303
    appointed head of NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 334
    appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals, 358
    becomes attorney for NAACP, 22–23
    career in law, 359–61
    cares for dying wife, 343
    casual office manner and humor of, 44–45
    Columbia Race Riot trial and, 7–11, 14–20, 29, 30
    defense of black American soldiers serving during Korean War, 207–9
    effect of H. T. Moore assassination on, 278, 281–82
    efforts to dissociate NAACP from communism, 26–27, 110–12, 153–55, 206–7
    fails to get indictment of J. Yates and L. Campbell for prison beatings, 194–95
    family of, 2, 46
    Groveland Boys appeals to Florida Supreme Court and role of, 191, 193–94, 335
    Groveland Boys appeal to U.S. Supreme Court and role of, 194, 204, 215–18, 219, 336
    Groveland Boys case/trial and role of, 3–5, 110, 126, 134, 138, 142, 151
    Groveland Boys retrial (W. Irvin) and role of, 222–26, 230, 260, 262, 267–69, 270–71, 286–95, 299, 306–7, 315–20, 326–30, 335, 342–51
    Groveland Boys, shootings of S. Shepherd and W. Irvin, and role of, 232, 233, 241, 244–45, 246, 256
    Harlem home of, 22–28
    health of, 10, 29–32
    hiring practices of, at NAACP, 46–47
    hospitality provided to, 5, 47
    C. H. Houston as mentor to, 8, 22, 197
    W. Howard lynching case and, 101, 103, 104
    legal strategies of, 2, 48–49, 50–51, 53, 56, 123
    letters to, 45–46, 361
    Lyons murder case, 52–57
    oratorical skills, 270, 334
    principle of not using race as excuse, 209
    professional reputation of, 5, 45–46, 47, 224
    relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, 110–12, 206, 261
    relationship with wife, 41–42
    relationships with women, 41, 47, 338
    removed from defending W. Irvin in retrial, 269, 270–71
    salary, 181, 206
    school desegregation cases, 43–44, 185–91, 203, 205, 333, 335–40
    speaking engagements, 258 , 269–71, 353
    Spell rape case, 50–52, 306
    stops W. Irvin’s execution, 341–43
    as Supreme Court associate justice, 359–60
    Supreme Court cases argued by, 2, 4, 5, 28–29, 53–54, 69–70, 82–83, 335–39
    tensions between W. White and, 69–70
    tensions between F. Williams