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The Long Road to Justice | Gilbert King (Devil in the Grove)
Episode 812th April 2022 • Read, White & Blue • Chris Sprowls
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On the final episode of Season 1 of "Read, White, & Blue," Speaker Sprowls sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King to discuss his book, "Devil in the Grove," a tragic historical account of Jim Crow-era Florida and the false accusation and sentencing of the Groveland Four: Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas. King recounts his research into the prejudice in rural Florida in the 1940s and 50s and the horrible miscarriage of justice that followed the false accusations against these four young Black men. Speaker Sprowls and King discuss how "Devil in the Grove" brought awareness to this tragedy and the instrumental role it played in the Florida Legislature's decision to pursue the long overdue pardon and exoneration of the Groveland Four beginning in 2017.

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