Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
First edition
Author
Gilbert King
Published
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins
2012 non-fiction book by Gilbert King
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America is a 2012 non-fiction book by the American author Gilbert King. It is a history of the attorney Thurgood Marshall's defense of four young black men in Lake County, Florida, who were accused in 1949 of raping a white woman. They were known as the Groveland Boys. Marshall led a team from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Published by Harper, the book was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[1] The Pulitzer Committee described it as "a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice."[2]
^"Making a Name by Uncovering a Lost Case". The New York Times. April 24, 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
^"The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners General Nonfiction". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
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