Details & Subjects

Edition Statement :

1st ed.

Content :

Prologue -- Mink slide -- Sugar Hill -- Get to pushin' -- Nigger in a pit -- Trouble fixin' to start -- A little Bolita -- Wipe this place clean -- A Christmas card -- Don't shoot, white man -- Quite a hose wielder -- Bad egg -- Atom smasher -- In any fight some fall -- This is a rape case -- You have pissed in my whiskey -- It's a funny thing -- No man alive or to be born -- All over the place, like rats -- Private parts -- A genius here before us -- The colored way -- A place in the sun -- Epilogue.

Publication, Distribution, etc. :

New York : Harper, ©2012.

ISBN :

0061792284

Physical Description :

x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes :

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-416) and index.
• Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2013.

Subjects :

• Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
• Groveland Four Trial, Groveland, Fla., 1949-1952.
• Trials (Rape) -- Florida -- Groveland -- History -- 20th century.
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Florida -- Groveland -- History -- 20th century.

Genres :

• History & Culture.
• Nonfiction.