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

A gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law, Devil in the Grove brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never seen before. As Isabel Wilkerson?s The Warmth of Other Suns did for the story of America?s black migration, Gilbert King?s Devil in the Grove does for this great untold story of American legal history, a dangerous and uncertain case from the days immediately before Brown v. Board of Education in which the young civil rights attorney Marshall risked his life to defend a boy slated for the electric chair?saving him, against all odds, from being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.

Author: Gilbert King

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Publication Date: February 19, 2013

Number of Pages: 464 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0061792268

ISBN-13: 9780061792267