Devil in the Grove

Gilbert King recounts the 1949 case of the Groveland Four, four young Black men in Lake County, Florida, falsely accused of raping a white woman and targeted by a violent, corrupt sheriff. The book details the racist terror campaign against the defendants, the landmark legal defence mounted by a young Thurgood Marshall and a pivotal civil-rights legal battle.

ISBN 9780061792267 · Harper Perennial · 2012