Accidental Activist : Justice for the Groveland Four (Paperback)

from FerneMysteryReader

Barbara Venkataraman called my attention to this publication and I read it in one sitting today (December 28, 2019). I couldn't stop reading. My review is my own opinion without any input or expectation or promise of remuneration from the authors. Over the years in my roles as a librarian and boo...

from jetangen4571

politics, criminal-injustice-system, florida, action, nonfiction, racial-profiling, lynching, mob-mentality, bigotry Four young men who were nearly proved innocent in 1949 were either wrongfully incarcerated or murdered at the instigation of a sheriff have had their day in court nearly seventy ye...

from Emily_Wai_Catan

Accidental Activist : Justice for the Groveland Four by Josh Venkataraman is a small (101 pages) but mighty and powerful memoir that documents his 4-year journey to right the wrong that happened in Florida about 70 years ago… In 1949, four African-American youths were falsely accused of raping a ...

from lst0222

This book takes you back in time to 1949 in Groveland, Florida, to an injustice against four young men who were convicted of a crime they did not commit. And as we've come to expect from so-called justice in the south, is that the whole case was race-related with no solid evidence, just a hatred ...

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Josh Venkataraman has written an inspirational and readable guide on how to effect change. What originally began as a reading assignment for an American History class at the University of Florida - Gainesville became more than a story, more than an assignment. Gilbert King's Pulitzer Prize-winnin...