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

Charles Greenlee. The transcript appears in the Moore Report.
    180  “Scotland Yard”: Mount Dora Topic , undated clipping, FHW Papers, September 1949.
    180  “An unlettered but articulate”: New York Post , September 6, 1949.
    180  “ample opportunity”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol. 4, Affadavit, p. 142.
    180  “vicious,” in Williams’s judgment: FOHP, Williams.
    180    “the evidence was”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 188.
    181  “My feeling is that”: Wilkins to Spingarn, NAACP, September 6, 1949.
    181  “that Tavares business”: New York Post , September 6, 1949.
    181  “thrown behind the defense”: Press release, NAACP, August 1949.
    181  “We’ll keep Frank’s promise”: New York Post , Septe,ber 6, 1949.
    181  “bloodthirsty, motorized mob”: New York Post , September 9, 1949.
    182  “all the characteristics”: FOHP, Williams.
    182  “He may have been”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 32.
    182  “I would not live in the South”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 154.
    182  “deterred the assertion”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 98.
    183  “So if God be with me”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 194.
    183    “damn bunch of Communists”: Ibid., p. 198.
    184  The FBI chose: Moore Report, Exhibit 76.
    184  “intended to stop car”: Ibid.
    184  by a federal grand jury: Marshall to McGrath, 44-2772-43, FBI.
    184  “there is substantial evidence”: Campbell to Phillips, 144-18-117, FBI, September 13, 1949,
    184  “as fair a trial”: Phillips to Campbell, MM 44-156, FBI.
    185  “Judge, I agree”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 277.
    185-86  “all day and virtually every night”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 159.
    186  “considerable talents”: Ibid., p. 160.
    186  “great dark Munich beer”: Ibid., p. 159.
    186  “If we can force the University of Texas”: The Survey , Vol. 85, 1949, p. 21. (Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, Survey Associates.)
    186  “equal to the University of Texas Law School”: Lavergne, Before Brown , p. 161.
    187  “everyone knows what the score is”: Unidentified news clipping, NAACP.
    188  “opened [the judge’s] eyes”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 179.
    188  “You keep talking”: Rowan, Dream Makers, Dream Breakers , p. 148.
    188  “it was ‘nigger’ this”: Ibid.
    188  “Thurgood was respectful”: Address by John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, to the American Bar Association, Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner Honoring Abner Mikva, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, August 6, 2005.
    188  “there would be intermarriage”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 265.
    188  “We had eight people”: Ibid.
    189  For one, McLaurin: Ibid.
    189  “it offered the”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 71.
    189  “clattering hot-lead Linotype machines”: Ibid., p. 159.
    189    “Thurgood focused on”: Ibid., p. 71.
    189  “ Plessy must go”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 276.
    190  “like a boxer”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 72.
    190  “employed a rhetoric”: Ibid., p. 76.
    190  “The rights of Sweatt”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 183.
    190  “All we ask in the south”: Ibid.
    191    “I was the first deputy”: FOHP, Williams.
    191  “Bill, take a few minutes”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 32. Also FOHP, Williams.
    191  “Walter liked me”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 271.
    191  “He had great success”: Ibid.
    192  “cautious to a fault”: Ibid., p. 272.
    192  “because they might”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 33.
    192  “special counsel”: Ibid.
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    193  “Mrs. Padgett didn’t”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Brief of Appellee, p. 44.
    194  “in somebody’s back”: FOHP, Williams.
    194  “disturbed and disappointed”: MM 44-156, FBI.
    195  didn’t “need any assistance”: FBI 44-2722-90, Phillips to McInerney, April 28, 1950.
    195  “These education cases are”: James, Root and Branch , p. 199.
    195  “didn’t know how to stop working”: McNeil, Groundwork , p. 209.
    195    “to remember his father”: Ibid.
    195  “Get down from there”: Ibid., p. 187.
    196  “open-air Scottsboro protest meeting”: Ibid., p. 207.
    196  Since Scottsboro: Ibid.
    196  “Hi, Joe,” Houston said: Ibid.,