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[Kätzchen]

Just wanted to leave another note here tonight:

I came across Gilbert King (author of: Devil in the Grove) a few months ago when headline news broke across America about Trayvon Martin - who was robbed of his life in a gated community in Florida.

I highly recommend this book and it is a book I am keeping in my growing archive on literature pertaining to Race, Power & Privilege.

For those of you who are interested:

Gilbert King maintains a blog (found here), supplies updates on his FB page and travels to university and college campuses to speak about racism in America and promote his book.

I bought his book this past spring when it became available for purchase out here on the west coast. His book has been reviewed by The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune - as well as authors such as Kevin Boyle, Wil Haygood and Ira Katznelson.

Here's an excerpt about the book, provided by Amazon.com:

Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in an explosive and deadly case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.