A gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law, Devil in the Grove brings to light one of the most
dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the
world has never seen before. As Isabel Wilkerson�s The Warmth of Other Suns did for the story of America�s black
migration, Gilbert King�s Devil in the Grove does for this great untold story of American legal history, a dangerous
and uncertain case from the days immediately before Brown v. Board of Education in which the young civil rights
attorney Marshall risked his life to defend a boy slated for the electric chair�saving him, against all odds, from
being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.