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

January 1, 1952.
    272  “This is not a single battle”: Tushnet, The NAACP’s Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education , 1925 – 1950 , p. 95.
    272  “going too far” in his work: Moore Report, Exhibit 39.
    272  “I’m going to keep doing it”: Green, Before His Time , p. 162.
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    274  “Is that you, Harry?”: Moore Report, p. 31. The accounts of the evening of December 25, 1951, are derived from various FBI reports, interviews, and witness statements included in this report.
    276  “We seek no special favors”: Moore to Warren, NAACP, December 2, 1951.
    277  “Trying to scare”: Moore Report, p. 315.
    277  “There isn’t much left”: Orlando Sentinel , December 28, 1951.
    277  “Bombing Kills Negro Leader”: New York Times , December 27, 1951.
    278  “When state officers”: Washington Post , December 29, 1951.
    278  “That kind of violent incident”: Crisis , May/June, 1999.
    278    “I can testify”: Collier’s , February 23, 1952.
    278  “the possibility of violent death”: Jet , September 29, 1955.
    278  “representatives of the finest type”: Marshall to Warren, NAACP, December 26, 1951.
    279  “Terrorism in Florida”: Crisis , February 1952.
    279  “Notice Negro Blood on Your Grapefruit?”: Ebony , April 1952.
    279  “It’s a pat on the back”: Ebony , November 1975.
    279  “Terrorists Kill by Night”: St. Petersburg Times , December 30, 1951.
    279  “arrest and conviction”: St. Petersburg Times , December 28, 1951.
    279  “acting as a human shield”: Green, Before His Time , p. 183.
    279  “I am the second best pistol shot”: Baltimore Afro-American , January 5, 1952.
    279  “to see what can be done”: St. Petersburg Times , December 28, 1951.
    279  “in their moment of degradation”: New York Times , December 31, 1951.
    280  “fast, resolute action”: New York Times , January 3, 1952.
    280  “Everything was being done”: St. Petersburg Times , December 28, 1951.
    280  “I’m sure as I can be”: Green, Before His Time , p. 184.
    280  “a relief to know”: St. Petersburg Times , December 31, 1951.
    280  Against Dr. Starke’s wishes: Ibid., p. 186.
    281  “even if they had a pistol”: Green, Before His Time , p. 187.
    282  “You can pick up a newspaper”: Pittsburgh Courier , February 2, 1952.
    282  “Getting dynamite”: Moore Report, p. 123.
    282  “We’d go in and talk”: Ibid.
    282  “We had informants”: Ibid.
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    284  was “booked solid”: Moore Report, p. 316.
    284  “I don’t care how booked you are”: Ibid.
    284  “to ensure that the FBI”: Ibid.
    284  “Klan members and some law enforcement officers”: Ibid.
    285  “How you want your body shipped back?”: Chicago Defender , February 23, 1952.
    285  “American Confederate Army”: Jet , July 31, 1952.
    285  1. denounce the NAACP: Ibid.
    285  “Florida must have a few lynchings”: Ibid.
    285  “at least 25 cars”: Pittsburgh Courier , February 23, 1952.
    285  “with confederate flags flying”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 141.
    285  “It was frightening, it was exciting”: COHP, Greenberg.
    286  “took the vain precaution”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 141.
    286  “too busy with traffic accidents”: Fort Pierce News Tribune , February 12, 1952.
    286  “misquoted” with regard: St. Petersburg Times , February 17, 1952.
    286  “libelous and defamatory” postcards: Lubbock Evening Journal , February 13, 1952.
    286  “Your boys, the KKKs”: Chicago Defender , February 23, 1952.
    286  “beautiful shiny Cadillac”: Ibid.
    286  “rip-roaring welcome parade”: Pittsburgh Courier , February 23, 1952.
    286  “stirred up trouble in the community”: Atlanta Daily World , February 10, 1952.
    286  “My shoulder worries me”: New York Daily Compass , February 13, 1952.
    287  “packed to the ceiling”: Chicago Defender , February 23, 1952.
    287  “our greatest civil liberties lawyer”: Collier’s , February 23, 1952.
    287  a Louisiana judge who was “no friend”: COHP, Marshall.
    288  “You don’t have to worry”: Ibid.
    288  “not one of the 518 whites”: New York Daily Compass , February 12, 1952.
    288  “place the trial”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 143.
    288  “chewed occasionally”: New York Daily Compass ,