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“Jesus,” Greenlee had said, remembering for Williams the night he’d lost his future. “If I, if I thought a white woman had been raped within a hundred miles of [Groveland] and Negroes were suspected, I would have opened the door and left.”
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Seems like a lot of white rapists were getting away with their crimes. But, really, isn’t that what purpose of black oppression was? To protect white criminals from being punished?
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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