151. Momentum: The Ripples Made by Ordinary People, Part 6

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On today’s episode of our special series, Momentum: Civil Rights in the 1950s, Sharon continues a riveting conversation with pulitzer-prize winning author, Gilbert King. We pick up with the involvement of J.Edgar Hoover and the case of The Groveland Four, including the political dance Thurgood Marshall did with Hoover to strategically move the Civil Rights movement forward.

Often flying under the radar in history, Florida, for some years, was far worse than higher profile areas in the Cotton Belt when it came to violent acts against Civil Rights advocates and the Black community. Florida had the highest per-capita rate of lynching of any state in the country, but as the land of “surf and sun,” it did not fit the narrative of the broader movement of the Civil Rights era that followed Brown vs. the Board of Education. What does “tranquility of the South” have to do with an investigation that was quashed by a U.S. attorney? How did the momentum of a diligent author lead to the exoneration of The Groveland Four 72 years after their arrests? And how did the work of Harry T. Moore and Harriette T. Moore single handedly change the voting demographics, and sacrificed their lives for?

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome to episode 6 of our special series called Momentum.
0:16.5	The series is about ordinary Americans and their struggle for freedom.
0:22.0	In episode 5, I began my conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Gilbert King.
0:28.1	He has written a phenomenal book called Devil in the Grove, Thurgood Marshall, The Grove
0:35.1	Lindbois, and the dawn of a new America.
0:39.7	And I cannot recommend it enough.
0:42.3	I read widely and extensively.
0:45.7	Gilbert King is an incredible writer.
0:49.2	The story is gripping.
0:50.2	It has the kind of characters that if they were in a novel, you wouldn't believe it.
0:54.3	I think every American would benefit from reading Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King.
1:01.4	I want to give you a little content warning that this episode, like episode 5, discusses
1:07.0	some heavy topics that might not be appropriate for tiny children.
1:11.4	You might want to listen to this episode with your headphones on.
1:14.4	But these are topics that are important.
1:17.6	These are topics that we can no longer afford to gloss over.
1:23.3	These are topics that as Americans, we can no longer sweep under the rug, minimize white
1:32.6	wash or relegate to boxes of files in a basement somewhere.
1:38.9	These are topics that must be brought to light.
1:44.4	So let's continue my conversation with Gilbert King.
1:49.4	You will not believe where this goes.
1:52.9	I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
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