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

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    Smith v. Allwright , 28–29, 82–83
    Spaulding, Nelson (physician), examination of Groveland Boys’ injuries, 135–36
    Spell, Joseph, rape case and trial, 50–52, 306
    Spingarn, Stephen, 155
    Spingarn Medal, 26, 28, 29, 197, 333
    Stacy, Rubin (lynching victim), 3
    Starke, George (physician), 276, 277, 280
    Starr, Ruth N., 361
    Starr, Dave (sheriff, Orange County, FL), 221, 284, 286
    State of Florida v. Samuel Shepherd, Walter Irvin, Ernest E. Thomas , 163. See also Groveland Boys rape case and trial
    Stephenson, Gladys, 11, 12, 30
    Stephenson, James, 11, 12
    Stevens, John Paul (Supreme Court justice), 188
    Stinney, George, Jr., murder case of, 334
    Stovall, Alice (NAACP secretary), 5, 27
    Strubing, Eleanor, rape case, 50–52, 306
    Stuckey Still, white mob violence in, 87, 89–93, 95–97, 108–9
    Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem, 25–28
    Sullins, C. E., 91
    Supreme Court, U.S.
    Groveland Boys appeals to, 202, 205, 210, 215–20, 336, 338, 342, 344
    T. Marshall cases argued before, 2, 4, 5, 28–29, 53–54, 69–70, 82–83, 120, 186–91, 198, 335, 336–39
    Suyat, Cecilia (NAACP secretary), 339
    Sweatt, Heman Marion, desegregation case involving, 186–91, 198
    Sweatt v. Painter , 186–88, 189, 190, 198
    Swinney, Wayne (FBI agent), 236, 283–84

    Talmadge, Herman, 293–94
    Tampa Tribune (newspaper), 79
    Tennessee State Guard, 13
    Texas Primary Case, 28–29
    They Shall Be Free (Chalmers), 347
    Thomas, Ernest (Groveland Boy), 89
    as bolita lottery game peddler, 114–15
    death ruled justifiable homicide, 119–20
    flees Groveland at reports of mob violence, 73, 85
    friendship with C. Greenlee, 64–65, 114
    manhunt and killing of, 113–14, 115–19, 126, 131
    Thomas, Ethel (mother of Ernest Thomas), 73, 114, 149
    testimony in Groveland Boys trial, 167
    Thomas, Luther (father of Ernest Thomas), 149
    Thomas, Milton C. (editor), 118, 221
    suspicions about Groveland Boys trial testimony, 212–15
    Thomas, Ruby Lee (wife of Ernest Thomas), 115
    Thurmond, Strom, 83
    Till, Emmett (lynching victim), 100–101
    Time (periodical), 340, 344, 349 354
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 3
    Tomlinson, Betty Lou (cousin of Norma Padgett), 229
    Trains, Thurgood Marshall on segregated, 1–2, 3, 21–22
    Truman, Harry (U.S. president), 34, 121, 134, 196, 280, 341
    desegregation of U.S. military by, 207, 208, 222
    Tuck, Jay Nelson (news reporter), 257, 295
    Tureaud, A. P. (attorney), 47–48
    Twiss, Clifton and Ethel, encounter with N. Padgett following alleged rape, 58–59, 213, 215
    Tyson, Coy (father of Norma Padgett), 34, 35, 64, 69, 73, 93, 99, 200

    United States Supreme Court ( see Supreme Court, U.S.)
    University of Florida Oral History Project, 358
    University of Maryland School of Nursing, desegregation of, 185–86
    University of Texas Law School, desegregation of, 186–91, 197

    Valree, George, bolita operations and connection to Ernest Thomas, 114–15
    Valree, Mary Hunter “Little,” 92–93
    Veterans ( see Military veterans, black)
    Vinson, Fred (Supreme Court justice), 342
    Violence ( see Assaults on blacks by law enforcement officers; Lynchings of blacks; Mob violence by whites)
    Vishinsky, Andrei (Soviet minister), 240
    Voter registration campaigns, 83
    Voting rights, 28–29, 82–83

    Waddy, Joseph, 195
    Wall, Robert (FBI agent), 254
    Waller, Fats, 23
    Wann, M. L., 86
    Waring, Julius Waties (judge), 203
    Warren, Fuller (Florida governor), 87, 99, 108–9, 126, 233, 246, 276, 355
    appoints investigator J. J. Elliott to Groveland Boys shootings, 241–42
    calls to, for pardon of W. Irvin, 332
    calls to, for removal of W. McCall, 264
    concern about press coverage of H. T. Moore assassination for Florida economy, 279
    fails to remove Sheriff McCall after shootings, 255–56
    offers plea deal to W. Irvin, 291–93
    political problems related to gambling, 247–48, 258–59
    sends warning about threats to T. Marshall, 290–91
    Washington, D.C., gambling in, 258–59
    Washington Post , 278
    Watts, Roland, 204
    investigation of Groveland Boys trial testimony and, 211–15
    Watts v. Indiana , 120, 191, 202
    Weaver, Maurice (NAACP attorney), Columbia Race Riot trial and, 10, 14–20, 30
    Weaver, Virginia (wife of Maurice Weaver), 10
    Welles, Orson, 121
    White, Gladys, 26
    White, Walter (NAACP executive secretary), 9, 15, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 42, 111–12, 120, 222, 338
    attends H. T. Moore’s funeral, 280, 281
    criticism of, and leave of absence, 68–71
    returns to NAACP after leave, 201
    salary,