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

p. 180.
    335  “black people of no great means”: Ibid.
    335  “He’s aged so”: Collier’s , February 23, 1952.
    335  “beyond the limits of the human anatomy”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 563.
    335  Marshall flashed the secret: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 170.
    336  “Why don’t we take”: Franklin, Mirror to America , p. 157.
    337  “present a case so persuasive”: Ibid., p. 158.
    337  “I’m going to be a good butler”: COHP, Marshall.
    337  “It deserves a place”: Kluger, Simple Justice , p. 648.
    337  “I realized there wasn’t”: “Justice Thurgood Marshall,” Ken Gormley, ABA Journal , June 1992.
    339  “separate educational facilities”: Brown v Board of Education , 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
    339  “Thurgood was very discreet”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 231.
    340  “You know, he favors”: “Look At Your Own Child,” Time , December 13, 1954. Also FHW Papers, Chesley; Berry, Almost White , p. 179.
    340  “Black Angus cattle”: Daytona Beach Morning Journal , March 14, 1963.
    340  “The sheriff is the law here”: St. Petersburg Times , October 16, 1955.
    340  “If the children never”: Berry, Almost White , p. 179.
    340  “people of mixed”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 70.
    341  “right to an education”: Bill Maxwell, “Jim Crow Conflict Clouded the Point,” St. Petersburg Times , February 14, 2001.
    341  “that if they weren’t out by that night”: FHW Papers, Chesley.
    341  “a man who knows how”: St. Petersburg Times , November 7, 1954.
    341  “I for one, am going to do all I can”: Green, Before His Time , p. 196.
    341  Johns responded by telling reporters: Ocala Star Banner , October 13, 1954.
    341  “hog and hominy” segregationist: New York Times , May 27, 1956.
    342  “till the last tick”: Palm Beach Post , November 4, 1954.
    342  “How did you find me?”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 148.
    343  “He had become cadaverous”: Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts , p. 202.
    343  “morose and unhappy”: COHP, Greenberg.
    343  “three sturdy legs”: Time , December 19, 1955.
    344  “ward-heeling, back scratching”: St. Petersburg Times , January 5, 1955.
    344  “were never convinced”: St. Petersburg Times , February 21, 1954.
    344  “get rid of this case”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 348.
    344  In November 1951, only: Byrd to Marshall, LDF, November 29, 1951.
    344  “caused him to plot this killing”: Ibid.
    344– 45  “trying to drag Hunter into this killing”: Marshall to Byrd, LDF, November 30, 1951.
    345  “house might catch fire”: St. Petersburg Times , October 19, 1955.
    345  “out of control”: FHW Papers, Chesley.
    345  “Much as I hate it”: St. Petersburg Times , October 19, 1955.
    345  “The Lord be praised”: Ibid.
    345  “I have no comment”: Ibid.
    345  “night-riding terrorists”: St. Petersburg Times , November 13, 1955.
    345  “didn’t want to go to school”: Evening Independent , December 14, 1962.
    346  “I’ve got more justice”: St. Petersburg Times , November 13, 1955.
    346  The former prosecutor also: St. Petersburg Times , November 14, 1955.
    346  “In my book, they’re”: Berry, Almost White , p. 182.
    346  “due chiefly to the influence”: FHW Papers, Chesley.
    346  countless “Florida selling” trips: Time , December 19, 1955.
    346  “Is there Negro Blood”: Ebony , November 1975.
    347  There are enough staid people: Gilbert Geis, “A Quarter of a Century for ‘Social Justice,’ ” Social Justice , Vol. 26, No. 2 (76), Summer, 1999.
    347  “desperate situation”: Committee of 100 reports, NAACP.
    348  “could have nailed this case down”: Florida State Archives, LeRoy Collins Papers.
    348  “in its best light”: Ibid.
    348  “substantial evidence”: Campbell to Phillips, September 13, 1949, 144-18-117, FBI.
    348  “Since I am your personal friend”: Florida State Archives, Collins.
    349  “In recognizing the humanity”: Furman v. Georgia , 408 U.S. 238 (1972).
    349  “Florida’s gutter of shame”: Ocala Star Banner , September 2, 1987.
    349  “I realized we had to change”: New York Times , March 13, 1991.
    349  “offer to the people of the world”: LeRoy Collins, inaugural speech from his den, Florida State Archives,