May 21 – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
I thought I knew Thurgood Marshall’s career fairly well from reading Juan Williams’ excellent biography from a decade ago. But King’s book deals with a criminal case that I had no knowledge of—”The Groveland Boys,” a Florida rape case of 1949. King, who describes himself as an amateur historian, says that Groveland “wasn’t really covered in a lot of the Marshall biographies, which tend to treat his criminal cases as footnotes. His clerks knew all about it, though, because he always talked about it when he recalled the old days.”
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