For the overview or my outline if you will for the project; I’m going to provide a brief background summary of his early years of his life to see what kind of family Mr. Willis Virgil McCall comes from. I’m going to touch base on his childhood as well to see how he grew up. All these credentials come into play when we get to talking about the book “Devil in the grove” by Gilbert King. Apparently, the book takes place down in Lake County in Florida, in the late 40’s early 50’s when the Jim Crowe laws were in effect in a major fashion. Whites and Blacks were two different races and weren’t treated equal. The thought was that everyone should be treated equal, but through this harsh time period, whites and blacks had their own areas labeled for them. Whether it was dining in at a restaurant, using the bathroom, going to a football game; you name it. So Mr. Willis McCall was the sheriff at the time and he was known for his cruel and unkind actions to the African Americans (Blacks).
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Well if you know a little bit about the history of Florida and about the police departments that were there in the 1940’s; then you knew there was close ties to the Ku Klux Klan. It was almost like a fraternity in college, but except police officers was undercover members of the klan and would continue to go to meetings. As we all know that this book’s time frame was late 1940’s and the Jim Crow laws were intact. The members of the Ku Klux Klan resided close to Lake County, which is why they are good friends or close with Sheriff McCall. But the book is centered on four black men who were falsely accused of raping a seventeen white female. Once the seventeen year old was raped, that triggered the Ku Klux Klan to come in and attack the black community; burning everything that the blacks cherished into ash. From the man himself that wrote the book Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King says the story is
Well if you know a little bit about the history of Florida and about the police departments that were there in the 1940’s; then you knew there was close ties to the Ku Klux Klan. It was almost like a fraternity in college, but except police officers was undercover members of the klan and would continue to go to meetings. As we all know that this book’s time frame was late 1940’s and the Jim Crow laws were intact. The members of the Ku Klux Klan resided close to Lake County, which is why they are good friends or close with Sheriff McCall. But the book is centered on four black men who were falsely accused of raping a seventeen white female. Once the seventeen year old was raped, that triggered the Ku Klux Klan to come in and attack the black community; burning everything that the blacks cherished into ash. From the man himself that wrote the book Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King says the story is