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

p. 211.
    196  “Tell Bo I did not”: Ibid., p. 212.
    197  “unremitting struggle”: Crisis , June 1950.
    197  “Whatever credit”: Sullivan, Lift Every Voice , p. 382.
    197    “guided us through”: Crisis , June 1950.
    198  “We won the big one!”: Lavergne, Before Brown , p. 253.
    198  left Plessy in “tatters”: Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law , p. 147.
    198  “Thurgood . . . a party man”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 185; Motley, Equal Justice Under Law , p. 106.
    198  “lots of Scotch”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 78.
    198  “the tools to destroy”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 185.
    199  “she waited patiently”: St. Petersburg Times , April 9, 1950.
    200  “crying profusely”: Ibid.
    200  As for her testimony: Corsair, The Groveland Four , pp. 202–203.
    200    “a dastardly lying libel”: St. Petersburg Times , April 13, 1950.
    201  “tried to keep him”: Crisis , June/July 1982.
    201  To Morehouse College president: Sullivan, Lift Every Voice , p. 373.
    201  “deplorable state of”: Current to Black, NAACP, undated report.
    202  “I plan to touch”: Green, Before His Time , p. 110.
    202  “a lot of yelling”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 154.
    202  “I won’t take it!”: COHP, Marshall.
    202  “Dutch uncle”: Presidential Recordings Program, Lyndon Johnson Tapes Transcripts, Monday, January 3, 1966: Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon Johnson, participants, http://whitehousetapes.net/transcript/johnson/wh6606-01-9403. (Hereafter cited as LBJ tapes.)
    203  “less than bold”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 248.
    203  “made Marshall look”: Ibid., p. 304.
    203  “not dragging his”: Ibid., p. 305.
    203  “he didn’t have to worry”: COHP, Marshall.
    203  “You’re fired”: Ibid.
    203    “Why, I didn’t mean that”: Ibid.
    204  “he felt he was being exiled”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 33.
    204  “although most of the whites”: Reports of Ms. L. B. De Forest, ACLU, Summer 1950.
    204  “to avoid any possibility”: Watts to Marshall, August 2, 1950, ACLU.
    204  “Keep away from Sheriff McCall”: Reports of Ms. L. B. De Forest, ACLU, Summer 1950.
    205  “chose[n] jurymen”: Cassell v. Texas , 339 U.S. 282 (1950).
    205  “would not be likely”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 98.
    205    “a number of old English cases”: Ibid.
    205  “The complete destruction”: Lavergne, Before Brown , p. 258.
    206  “eradicate Communists”: Crisis , November 1980.
    206  “They’re in there”: COHP, Marshall.
    206  “we socked them good”: Ibid.
    207  “The communists brought it on themselves”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 169.
    207  “staggering casualties”: Crisis , May 1951.
    208  “so-called trials”: COHP, Marshall.
    208  “in a base hospital”: Crisis , May 1951.
    208  “There was so much sniper fire”: Life , November 12, 1965.
    208  “What happened over there”: COHP, Marshall.
    208  “not even in the band”: Pittsburgh Courier , March 3, 1951.
    208  “the United States Air Force took just one day”: Crisis , May 1951.
    209  “The Red Koreans”: Ibid.
    209  “just a bad egg”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 80.
    209  “My dad told me”: New York Times , June 29, 1991.
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    211  a “Communist agent”: Ocala Star Banner , March 29, 1956.
    211  “a stranger coming”: De Forest, WDL. All observations and quotes are from the journal entries of L. B. De Forest, mailed to Rowland Watts during the summer of 1950.
    212  “If we were to tell the truth”: Ibid.
    213  “heard the motor start up again”: Twiss affadavit, WDL, April 29, 1951.
    213  “police alarm”: Thomas to Watts , WDL, undated.
    214  “sitting in the grass”: Fl. v. Shepherd , Vol. 4, p. 578.
    214  “thought she might have gotten”: MM 44-156, FBI.
    214  “vagaries in both”: Thomas to Watts, WDL, undated.
    215  “seen the girl”: Ibid.
    215–216  “I am sure you can appreciate”: Williams to Marshall, LDF, December 4, 1950.
    216  “To pull you out”: Marshall to Williams, LDF, December 12, 1950.
    216    “Well,” Bowen had responded: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 213.
    216  “irritated me a little”: FOHP, Williams.
    217  “to say anything more”: Crisis , April 1951.
    217  “Well,” Carter asked: FOHP,