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