Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Winner
of the Pulitzer Prize

“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas
Friedman, New York Times

Arguably 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
change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.

In 1949, Florida's orange
industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the bac...