Devil in the grove [DAISY talking book] Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America

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Title:

Author:

King, Gilbert, author.

Added Author:

Moore, Bob, narrator.

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2014. (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (audio (16 hours, 41 minutes))

Abstract:

Details the events that led to the Supreme Court's 1951 decision in Shepherd v. Florida, which overturned the convictions of three black men accused of raping a white teenager. Highlights the role played by NAACP attorney--and future Supreme Court justice--Thurgood Marshall. Violence and strong language. Pulitzer Prize. 2012.

General Note:

Digital audiobook in DAISY format.

Performers:

Narrated by: Bob Moore.

Contents:

Prologue -- Mink slide -- Sugar Hill -- Get to pushin' -- Nigger in a pit -- Trouble fixin' to start -- A little Bolita -- Wipe this place clean -- A Christmas card -- Don't shoot, white man -- Quite a hose wielder -- Bad egg -- Atom smasher -- In any fight some fall -- This is a rape case -- You have pissed in my whiskey -- It's a funny thing -- No man alive or to be born -- All over the place, like rats -- Private parts -- A genius here before us -- The colored way -- A place in the sun -- Epilogue.

Technical Details:

Full audio with structure.

Personal Subject:

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.

Corporate Subject:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Civil rights.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Florida -- Groveland -- History -- 20th century.

Groveland Four Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952.

Trials (Rape) -- Florida -- Groveland -- History -- 20th century.

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