Devil in the Grove
Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by Gilbert King
Recommended by Anthony Bourdain and Brad Feld
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in American History, History, and Nonfiction.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize?A mustread, cannotputdown history.? ? Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to ch...
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