Thurgood Marshall s Defense of Death Penalty Cases (s1d)

Thurgood Marshalls Defense of Death Penalty Cases (s1d) Author Gilbert King describes the case of four young African American men charged with the rape of a white woman in Florida in 1949, based on his Pulitzer Prizewinning book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers from the NAACP assumed responsibility for the defense. Class readings: