![]() ![]() ![]() It follows a case where four young Black men were accused of raping a white woman when she and her boyfriend find themselves in a broken down car along the side of the road. is a nonfiction book that takes place in Florida the 1940s-50s. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader against a heroic backdrop.-From publisher description. Associates thought it was suicidal for him to wade into the "Florida Terror" at a time when he was irreplaceable to the burgeoning civil rights movement, but the lawyer would not shrink from the fight-not after the Klan had murdered one of Marshall's NAACP associates and Marshall had endured threats that he would be next. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as "Mr. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. ![]() In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. ![]()
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