The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynching

The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a LegalLynching is the shocking,but true story of prejudice, violence, corruption, courage and redemption thatmade international headlines. Gary Corsair's account is based on exhuastiveresearch into one of the most notorious Civil Rights cases of all time, a casethat began when a 17-year-old Florida girl reported being kidnapped and rapedby four Negro men on July 16, 1949.Here for the first time anywhere, are the vivid memories of those who livedthe nightmares of blood-thirsty mobs, police brutality, lying witnesses, KuKlux Klan terrorists, manufactured evidence, and murder by the very men swornto uphold the law. The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynchingis 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, andothers with first-hand knowledge of the events that have polarized Lake County,Florida, for 50-plus years. Corsair also gained access to legal files untouchedfor 50 years that reveal rare insights into the men who fought to save thedefendants and cast serious doubts on the gulity verdicts rendered by all-whitejuries.