What is Reddit's opinion of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America?

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Highly recommend The Devil in the Grove. Great deep dive into the work Marshall did for the NAACP, including criminal defense work in the Segregated South.

Submission statement:

This is a true, real-life story from American history. A murder story. A rape story. A story about wild police corruption -- everything from police putting false footprints in soil, to literal cold-blooded murder carried out by police.

This is a story about the FBI refusing to do what is right. A story about race. A heroic story about the US' future first African-American Supreme Court justice. A story about judicial corruption, bias and rigged trials.

And a story about US history and our century of Jim Crow apartheid and the resistance to end that system of apartheid and discrimination.

This is also a story of modern-day political bravery, as the current Florida Governor Ron DeSantis granted posthumous pardons to four young African-American men accused of raping a white woman near Groveland, Florida, in 1949.

This story is told by a discussion with Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America," and Carol Greenlee, daughter of Charles Greenlee, one of the Groveland Four.

Why history is important

It is said that those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Thus, if we do not learn the lessons about what happened in our past, acknowledge and remember our centuries-long racism and stories about that bigotry, we risk committing the same types of un-American atrocities today.

Current context

Iowa congressman Rep. Steve King has stated that he does not consider the term "white nationalist" to be derogatory. Rep. Steve King recently gave an interview to the New York Times in which he was quoted asking: "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?"

This story is one small part of the answer to Steve King's question.

> "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist who lived through the Spanish civil war and the rise of fascism and WWII.

Lynching is one of the worst scourges on our national character.

A few years ago I read <em>Devil in the Grove</em> which was a chilling book about the white supremacist sherriff involved in the Groveland Boys case Thurgood Marshall took on when he was with the ACLU. It should be required reading for every America.