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“This will be one of the most rewarding things in my life,” author Gilbert King said of the Florida Clemency Board’s pardon on Friday of the Groveland Four.
The long road that led to the pardon arguably began with King’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Published in 2012, it revealed long-hidden evidence about the case as well as recounting the events in electrifying style, bringing wide attention to a dark chapter in Florida history.
King spoke to the Times by phone on his way from Tallahassee, where he had spoken before the board, to his home in New York City.
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