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

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
       King, Gilbert.
          Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America / Gilbert King.—1st ed.
             p. cm.
       ISBN 978-0-06-179228-1 (hardback)
       1. Discrimination in criminal justice administration—Florida—Groveland. 2. Groveland (Fla.)—Race relations. 3. Rape—Florida—Groveland. 4. African Americans—Civil rights. 5. Marshall, Thurgood, 1908–1993. 6. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I. Title.
    HV9956.G76K56 2012
    305.896'073075922—dc23
    2011033757
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    Prologue
    2  “nigger briefs”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 71.
    2  “inherent defects”: Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association, Maui, Hawaii, May 6, 1987; commonly referred to as Marshall’s “Bicentennial Speech.” Thurgood Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
    2  the Founding Father of the New America: Jet , February 22, 1983. On the naming of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in 1993, Georgia representative John Lewis praised Marshall, stating, “Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall laid the foundation, in the legal sense, of the modern Civil Rights Movement. I would go far enough to say that he must be considered the founding father of the New America. . . . We would not have made the progress we have made, without the leadership and ability of a man like Thurgood Marshall.”
    3  “I could see my dead body”: Columbia University Oral History Project, Thurgood Marshall with Ed Erwin, Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University, Butler Library, New York, NY (hereafter cited as COHP, Marshall).
    3  “ the nigger Shepherd ”: Samuel Proctor Oral History Project, Franklin Williams, interview by David Colburn and Steve Lawson, University of Florida, Gainesville (hereafter cited as FOHP, Williams).
    4  “battle fatigue”: Clark, Toward Humanity and Justice , p. 107.
    4  “You know,” Marshall said: Ibid.
    4  “suicidal crusader”: Rowan, Dream Makers, Dream Breakers , p. 7.
    4  “Thurgood says he needs me,”: Ibid.
    4  “There is very little truth”: Marshall’s speech, 1966 White House conference on civil rights, Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All , A&E Biography, 2005.
    5  It also became the impetus: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 93.
    5  “glued together”: Ball, “ ‘Thurgood’s Coming’: Tale of a Hero Lawyer.”
    5  “Men are needed to sit”: Clark and Davis, Thurgood Marshall , p. 107.
    5  “They came in their jalopy”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 201.
    5  “a lawyer that a white man”: Janis Johnson, “A Tense Time in Tennessee,” Humanities , Vol. 25, No. 2, March/April 2004, http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-03/tennessee.
    5  “Thurgood’s coming”: The original source of this phrase is unknown, but the phrase “Thurgood’s coming,” or “the lawyer’s coming,” has been repeated countless times in stories by Marshall’s former Supreme Court clerks and quoted in articles, books, and law journals.
    Chapter 1: Mink Slide
    7  “If that son of a bitch”: Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown , p. 373.
    8  soda fountains: O’Brien, The Color of the Law , p. 66.
    8  “spit-spangled”: Leon A. Ransom to Daisy Lampkin, Library of