- Race relations, Groveland Four Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Discrimination in criminal justice administration
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.
Race relationsGroveland Four Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleDiscrimination in criminal justice administrationCivil rightsHistoryTrials (Rape)African AmericansRapeHISTORY / United States / 20th CenturyMarshall, thurgood, 1908-1993Florida, history
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- Author
- Gilbert King
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 545
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, Harper, Harper Collins Publishers
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062097712
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- Race relations
- Groveland Four Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Civil rights
- History
- Trials (Rape)
- African Americans
- Rape
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Marshall, thurgood, 1908-1993
- Florida, history
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