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

story was so convincing”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 279.
    256  “after this conference”: Marshall to Warren, NAACP, November 11, 1951.
    256  “This is the worst case”: Chicago Defender , November 17, 1951.
    257  “are no good at all”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 14.
    257  “sheer, filthy offensiveness”: New York Post , November 11, 1951.
    257  “I don’t think there is any question”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 14.
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    259  “crap games, after-hour”: Green, Before His Time , p. 149.
    259  “play the ace up my sleeve”: Stetson Kennedy, The Klan Unmasked , p. 245.
    259  “has facilitated”: Ibid., p. xiii.
    259  “Well, well!” Elliott said: Ibid., p. 245. Kennedy’s conversation with Elliott, which also appeared in several newspapers, is derived from his account in The Klan Unmasked .
    260  Stetson Kennedy didn’t even stop: Ibid., pp. 249–250.
    260  “Red hot information”: Chicago Defender , November 24, 1951.
    260  “for further funds”: FBI 44-4055-27. This report details the FBI’s interactions with Stetson Kennedy and also contains Hoover’s handwritten notation.
    261  “it looked like Kennedy had swindled”: Ibid.
    261  “could result in the nicest”: Chicago Defender , November 24, 1951.
    262  “prejudiced in Civil Rights investigations”: . FBI 44-4055-27.
    262  “entirely possible,” given: Ibid.
    262  “Klan-ridden regime”: Newton, The Invisible Empire , p. 125.
    262  “Sometime later,” however: Moore Report, p. 134.
    266  “the best person would”: Groveland Case Minutes, LDF, November 13, 1951.
    262  “In the name of human decency”: Marshall to Warren, NAACP, December 5, 1951.
    263  “doomed murderer”: FBI 44-4055-65. Leiby’s statement and the FBI investigation at Raiford are derived from this report.
    264  “it is not the practice”: Jet , January 17, 1951.
    264  “remove Sheriff Willis B. McCall”: Resolutions: Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches, November 23–35, 1951, Daytona Beach, NAACP.
    264  “came in and took over”: Moore Report, p. 98.
    265  “he could not understand”: Ibid., p. 34.
    265    “the easy part of the job”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 86.
    265  “anti-Semitic and anti-Negro slogans”: Raymond A. Mohl, “ ‘South of the South?’ Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1960, ” Journal of American Ethnic History , Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1999.
    265  “The Jew has already”: Ibid.
    266  “Florida Terror”: Gainesville Sun , November 5, 2000.
    266  “the worst year of minority outrages”: “The Truth About the Florida Race Troubles,” Saturday Evening Post , June 1952.
    266  “still echoing around the world”: Moore to Warren, NAACP, December 2, 1951.
    266    “Is it true that”: Ibid.
    266  “I’ll take a few”: Green, Before His Time , p. 155.
    267  “We really ought to”: Ibid.
    267  “Some of the tactics”: Ibid.
    267  “As matters now stand”: Washington Afro-American , December 4, 1951.
    267  “vicious, slanderous and”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 290.
    267  “has nothing whatsover”: Unidentified news clipping, NAACP.
    268    “Did you interview him”: Fl. v. Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin , Florida State Archives, Application for Removal of Cause, p. 139.
    268  “That statement is entirely false”: Ibid .
    268  “this whole thing has”: St. Petersburg Times , December 7, 1951.
    269  “took the first step”: Daily Worker , December 7, 1951.
    269  “stirred up trouble”: Columbia University Oral History Project, Jack Greenberg with Kitty Gelhorn, Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University, Butler Library, New York, NY (hereafter cited as COHP, Greenberg).
    269  “because they represent the NAACP”: St. Petersburg Times , December 7, 1951.
    270  “believed that the threat”: Pittsburgh Courier , December 22, 1951.
    270  “ordinary, conversational”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 76.
    270  “In a mass meeting”: Ibid., p. 29.
    271  “Why did McCall have to remove”: Pittsburgh Courier , December 22, 1951.
    271  “They can keep me”: Ibid.
    271  “from some of these white people”: Ibid.
    271    “I was glad of the chance”: Doggett to Marshall, LDF, December 15, 1951, and