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

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    156  “every bit of energy”: FOHP, Williams.
    156  “to cause constitutional error”: Ibid.
    156  Jesse Hunter kept it simple: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol. 2.
    156  “Jesse Hunter won’t have to ask”: Mount Dora Topic , September 1, 1949.
    156  “Honor Will Be Avenged”: Mount Dora Topic , July 2, 1949.
    156-57  “Special Rules of Court”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Affadavit, p. 40.
    157  “agitators or agents”: Ibid.
    157  “They had deputies”: FOHP, Williams.
    157  “worst crime in Lake county’s history”: Mount Dora Topic , September 1, 1949.
    157  “there is considerable”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol. 2, p. 78.
    157  “Supreme Court is the aim”: Mount Dora Topic , September 1, 1949.
    157  “to the staunch believers”: Ibid.
    158  “when the true story”: Ibid.
    158  “damned scared”: Hauke, Ted Poston , p. 77.
    158  “in the mail car”: Ibid., p. 58.
    158  “kick in the pants”: Ibid., p. 59.
    158  When Scottsboro: Ibid.
    159  “grown young lady”: Ibid., p. 13. This scene is recounted in Hauke’s book: Allison Williams, Poston’s lifelong friend, recalls conversations she had with Poston about his boyhood sexual encounters with a white woman.
    159  “Horror in the Sunny South”: New York Post , September 9, 1949.
    159  “seething jealousy”: Chicago Defender , July 30. 1949.
    160  “I will leave this place”: Ibid.
    160  “The theory was”: FOHP, Williams.
    160  “generally read from”: Moore Report, Exhibit 71.
    160  “greater modicum of security”: FOHP, Williams.
    160  “just in case anything happens”: State of Florida v. Walter L. Irvin, Charles Greenlee, and Samuel Shepherd , Prosecution Report, April 2, 1950, Exhibit 1, FBI 44-2722.
    161  that Norma Padgett was a “bad egg”: FBI 44-2722.
    161  “had grown up”: Ibid.
    161  “stirred up” the violence: Ibid.
    161  When pressed by Williams: Bertha E. Davis to Goldberg, LDF, August 1, 1949; and July 21, 1949.
    161  “Mrs. Padgett, her husband”: FBI 44-2722.
    161  “any traces of”: Davis to Goldberg, LDF, August 1. 1949; and July 21, 1949.
    162  “grave doubts”: FBI 44-2722.
    162  “considerably affected”: Ibid.
    162  “the investigation will result”: Ibid.
    162  “Richard Roe and John Doe”: Ibid.
    162  “the confidential nature”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 121.
    162  “those clay eating crackers”: FOHP, Williams.
    162  “How would you feel”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol. 3, pp. 398, 322.
    163  “They are not on trial”: Ibid., p. 413.
    163  Akerman’s other primary concern: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol 2, p. 236.
    163  “in favor of it”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol 3, p. 338.
    163  “gray haired old handyman”: Carson et al., Reporting Civil Rights, Part One , p. 127.
    163  “one of the best niggers”: Ibid.
    163  “Women Beg for Reserved Seats at Trial”: Mount Dora Topic , August 18, 1949.
    163  “Through sentiment”: Chicago Defender , September 10, 1949.
    163  “Bay Lake Crackers”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 132.
    164  “always intimidated me”: FOHP, Williams.
    164  “bare feet making”: Mount Dora Topic , undated clipping, FHW Papers, July 1949.
    164  Oppressive heat: FOHP, Williams.
    164  “of what he might do”: Ibid.
    164  “dying declaration”: Williams to Wilkins, undated letter, LDF, September 1949.
    165  “promenading”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 127.
    165  “Undiscovered American Beauties”: International Center of Photography Blog, Ladies Home Journal Prospectus, September 21, 1948, John Morris, Picture Editor, http://icplibrary.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/ladies-home-journal’s-undiscovered-american-beauties-provide-potential-bounty-to-photographers’/.
    165  “rise and point out”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol. 4, p. 509.
    166  “The nigger Shepherd”: FOHP, Williams. This is Franklin Williams’s recollection of the manner in which Norma Padgett identified her alleged attackers, according to the transcripts from FOHP, Williams. According to the trial transcripts, Norma Padgett, in her testimony, repeatedly referred to the defendants (and the deceased Ernest Thomas) as “this (or the) Thomas nigger,” “that Shepherd nigger,” “the Greenlee nigger,” and even “that Shepherd man” at times. Walter Irvin was referred to only as “Irvin” by