Devil in the Grove

by King, Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9780061792281
• ISBN10: 0061792284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-06
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

A gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law that brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history--and offers a rare and revealing portrait of the young and flamboyant civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall as he has never been seen before.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Mink Slide	p. 7
Sugar Hill	p. 21
Get to PushinÆ	p. 33
Nigger in a Pit	p. 40
Trouble Fixin' to Start	p. 58
A Little Bolita	p. 72
Wipe this Place Clean	p. 84
A Christmas Card	p. 100
Don't Shoot White Man	p. 113
Quite a Hose Wielder	p. 124
Bad Egg	p. 150
Atom Smasher	p. 178
In any Fight Some Fall	p. 193
THis is a Rape Case	p. 210
You Have Pissed in my Whiskey	p. 219
It's Funny Thing	p. 240
No Man Alive or to be Born	p. 258
All Over The Place, Like Rats	p. 273
Private Parts	p. 283
A Genius Here Before US	p. 303
The Colored Way	p. 321
A Place In The Sun	p. 331
Epilogue	p. 353
Acknowledgements	p. 363
A Note On Sources	p. 366
Notes	p. 368
Selected Bibliography	p. 413
Index	p. 417
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