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Let’s Talk About Florida – Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

Tuesday, April 5, 2022
4:00 pm

Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King book cover - Thursgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America; showing man standing next to oldtimer2013 Pulitzer Prize winner about Florida’s orange industry, Jim Crow labor, a rape, the Groveland Boys, the Klan and the involvement of Thurgood Marshall just prior to the Brown vs Board of Education case. Moderators: Randy Hicks and Pat Nesser Agles


Zoom links will be emailed to all attendees prior to the discussion. Feel free to already start reading the book of this discussion.

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