Devil in the grove
Trials (Rape)
Florida, history
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Southern states, race relations
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Rape
African americans, civil rights
Civil rights
Race relations
African Americans
New York Times bestseller
History
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes …
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