Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Summary
    Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Summary
    Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Summary
    Ebook48 pages47 minutes

    Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Summary

    By Summary Station

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Thurgood Marshall rides the train in the Jim Crow car (the one directly behind the engine) to the American south to defend yet another black citizen in court. Marshall, who was the grandson of a mixed-race slave, is an integral part of the growing civil rights movement in America. His father and uncle worked as porters on the railroad, and he himself worked as a waiter in the dining car during college. This history creates a sense of comfort and belonging for him as he travels by train, crisscrossing the country defending equality and civil rights. By now, he has built up an impressive list of legal victories on behalf of, usually falsely accused or framed, black citizens (often in the extremely racist American south). Although he has been successful, the plight of those whom he was unable to help haunts him as he drifts in and out of sleep on the train. He sees the photos of young black men, lynched by white supremacists, who took matters of ‘justice’ into their own hands. The most disturbing for him however, is the photo of young white children posing near the corpse of Rubin Stacy as it hangs from a tree, smiling and oblivious to the cruelty of what has just taken place. To Marshall this photo represents the next generation of white children being brought up to actively hate and discriminate against black people, or at least to be indifferent to their suffering.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummary Station
    Release dateMar 24, 2016
    ISBN9781311962058
    Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Summary
    Author

    Summary Station

    Many great books are released every year and most avid readers know that they may never have time to read all of the books on their list. In today’s world, many people do not get as much time to read as they would like, so it is important to use any reading time wisely. The problem with this is that it can be very difficult to know if a book is worth reading until you have already invested some time into reading it. This is one of the many reasons that Summary Station was created. The staff at Summary Station wants to provide readers with a way to get a good idea of a book before they invest their time and money into reading it. We make sure to provide you with as much information about a book as we possibly can. With Summary Station you can be assured that you will not only get a quality summary of a featured book, but you will also receive valuable information and analysis. The themes and characters are discussed in each summary as well as a brief review of the featured book. Even if you know you are going to definitely read a book, it will give you a big advantage in understanding the book if you explore one of our excellent summaries first.

    Read more from Summary Station

    Related to Devil in the Grove

    Related ebooks

    Law For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      2020 Is Winding Down, But The Drama Isn't: Read These Books Now To Make Sense Of It

      Sep 9, 2020

      Trainwreck. Demented. A dumpster fire of a year. We've all seen the social media memes, and most of us are ready to be done with 2020. But it isn't over yet. We still have a rancorous election season ahead of us as the country continues to reel from

      7 min read

    • Article

      In Memoir, Nikki Haley Hammers White House Team But Pledges Allegiance To Trump

      Nov 11, 2019

      In With All Due Respect, the former U.N. ambassador says Trump's ex-Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked her to help them "save the country" from the president.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The New Southern Strategy

      Sep 2, 2020

      The New Southern Strategy
      10 min read

    • Article

      Jonah Goldberg: Pandemic Is A Blown Opportunity For Conservative Nationalists

      May 20, 2020

      Future historians of the American right are going to have a devil of a time figuring out what the hell happened as the second decade of the 21st century came to a close. But every day I become more convinced about at least one of their conclusions: T

      3 min read

    • Article

      Our Racist Soul

      Sep 17, 2018

      THIS HATEFUL MOMENT OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICANS. JUST DON’T LET THE LOUD BIGOTS DISTRACT YOU

      11 min read

    • Article

      Why We Continue To Ignore The Elephant In The Room

      Oct 7, 2020

      IN 1994, I wrote an article in which I stated that “the ‘eggshell issues’ of racial discrimination, bias, prejudice and stereotyping – until now far too sensitive to discuss openly – needed to become the subject of continuous debate at all levels of

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Office of Historical Corrections

      Oct 7, 2020

      The vision for the Institute of Public History that summoned me from my former job as a history professor at GW had been grandiose. An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a cor

      1 min read

    • Article

      Past Tense

      Jun 25, 2021

      Past Tense
      18 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Devil in the Grove

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Devil in the Grove - Summary Station

      Summary and Analysis of Gilbert King’s Devil in the Grove:

      Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

      By Summary Station

      Copyright © 2015 by Summary Station

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2015

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Chapter 22

      Epilogue

      Analysis

      Prologue

      Thurgood Marshall rides the train in the Jim Crow car (the one directly behind the engine) to the American south to defend yet another black citizen in court. Marshall, who was the grandson of a mixed-race slave, is an integral part of the growing civil rights movement in America. His father and uncle worked as porters on the railroad, and he himself worked as a waiter in the dining car during college. This history creates a sense of comfort and belonging for him as he travels by train, crisscrossing the country defending equality and civil rights.

      By now, he has built up an impressive list of legal victories on behalf of, usually falsely accused or framed, black citizens (often in the extremely racist American south). Although he has been successful, the plight of those whom he was unable to help haunts him as he drifts in and out of sleep on the train. He sees the photos of young black men, lynched by white supremacists, who took matters of ‘justice’ into their own hands. The most disturbing for him however, is the photo of young white children posing near the corpse of Rubin Stacy as it hangs from a tree, smiling and oblivious to the cruelty of what has just taken place. To Marshall this photo represents the next generation of white children being brought up to actively hate and discriminate against black people, or at least to be indifferent to their suffering.

      Some of Marshall’s most notable legal victories would include his win at the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1951, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Through all of his cases however, his commitment to justice, and courage in the face

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1