num_pages: 404
description: The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynching is the shocking but true story of prejudice, violence, corruption, courage and redemption that made international headlines. Gary Corsair's account is based on exhuastive research into one of the most notorious Civil Rights cases of all time, a case that began when a 17-year-old Florida girl reported being kidnapped and raped by four Negro men on July 16, 1949. Here for the first time anywhere are the vivid memories of those who lived the nightmares of blood-thirsty mobs, police brutality, lying witnesses, Ku Klux Klan terrorists, manufactured evidence, and murder by the very men sworn to uphold the law. The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynching is the product of exclusive interviews with the only surviving defendant, relatives of the men who died for a crime they swore they didn't commit, and others with first-hand knowledge of the events that have polarized Lake County, Florida, for 50-plus years. Corsair also gained access to legal files untouched for 50 years that reveal rare insights into the men who fought to save the defendants and cast serious doubts on the guilty verdicts rendered by all-white juries.
language: English
title: The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynching
titlecomplete: The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynching
genres: History
ratings_count: 52
publisher: AuthorHouse