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

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    349  “Confess to the rape”: St. Petersburg Times , December 16, 1955.
    350  “a demonstration of senility”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 352.
    351  It had come to Collins: St. Petersburg Times , February 6, 1956.
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    353  “The State,” Governor LeRoy Collins said: St. Petersburg Times , December 16, 1952.
    354  “the victim of a gross miscarriage”: Ibid.
    354  “it took far more political courage”: Miami News , February 25, 1956.
    354  “I want you to know”: Corsair, The Groveland Four , p. 361.
    354  “Communist pressure tactics”: St. Petersburg Times , March 30, 1956.
    354  “the innocent victim”: Ibid.
    355  “smearing of the good people”: Sarasota Herald Tribune , May 5, 1956.
    355  “obtaining and circulating a petition”: St. Petersburg Times , May 5, 1956.
    355  “when feelings ran high”: St. Petersburg Times , September 24, 1955.
    355  “You’re the one who”: Miami News , February 23, 1956.
    356  In March 1960 Deputy James Yates: Ocala Star-Banner , December 21, 1962.
    357  “I never hurt anyone”: Flores, Justice Gone Wrong , p. 187.
    357  The FBI ultimately laid responsibility: Moore Report, p. 331.
    357  “for the ‘Tranquility of the South’ ”: Ibid., p. 123.
    358  a “model life”: Daytona Beach Morning Journal , November 18, 1957.
    358  “I would put Frank there”: Marshall to Johnson, LBJ tapes.
    358  “This man is a”: FOHP, Williams.
    359  Mabel Norris Chesley was suspicious: FHW Papers, Chesley.
    359  Ku Klux Klan leader: Brandenburg v. Ohio , 395 U.S. 444 (1969).
    360  “There is very little truth”: Marshall’s speech, 1966 White House conference on civil rights, Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All , A&E Biography, 2005.
    360  Governor LeRoy Collins had done: Collins later became known as “Liberal LeRoy” after he arrived in Selma, Alabama (dispatched by President Johnson), on March 9, 1965, and successfully negotiated a compromise with police so that Martin Luther King Jr., and the 2,500 marchers could cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge without the police brutality and bloodshed that had marred the first attempt at a Selma-to-Montgomery march two days earlier.
    360  “did the most immediate good”: Tushnet, Thurgood Marshall , p. 455.
    360  “the sonofabitch”: Williams interview with Marshall.
    361  My dear Mr. Justice: Marshall Papers, LOC.