by Gilbert King
Reese, Mabel Norris, 14–17, 41–57, 60–66, 68, 120, 202, 220, 239–40, 265–72, 306–9, 323, 332–33, 355–61, 374–75
Big Scrub cabin case and, 90, 318
bombings of house of, 62–63
cross-burning and, 44–46, 224
and Jesse Daniels’s arrest and imprisonment, 97–98, 162, 182, 302
Jesse Daniels’s confession and, 107, 124
Jesse Daniels’s hospital commitment and, 124–25, 155, 161–62, 165, 171, 194, 242, 269–71, 293–94, 296, 301, 355, 359, 366
Jesse Daniels’s freedom and, 307, 355
Jesse Daniels’s grand jury hearing and, 105–6
Jesse Daniels’s legislative hearings and, 307–9, 314, 317
Jesse Daniels’s relief claim and, 307, 366
Jesse Daniels’s sanity hearing and, 272, 283–84, 291, 294
Jesse Daniels’s timeline and, 163–65
Pearl Daniels’s death and, 360
Pearl Daniels’s relationship with, 120–21, 154, 262–63, 265–66, 356
East Town incident and, 222
Florida’s agriculture and, 15–16
and freeing of Jesse Daniels, 299–302
Fruitland Park rape case and, 244, 251, 318, 333
Groveland Boys case and, 42–44, 60–61, 91, 113–14, 167, 183, 318, 375
and Melvin Hawkins Jr.’s arrest and imprisonment, 80–81, 83, 96
Knowles rape case and, 41, 80–81, 83, 91, 96–98, 103–8, 112–14, 120–21, 123–25, 154–55, 162–68, 171–72, 174, 178–80, 182, 194–98, 200, 204, 206, 208, 213, 215–16, 243, 251, 260, 266–68, 291–92, 309, 331, 344, 350, 353–55, 357, 375
letter to Futch, 113–14
McCall murder trial and, 324–25
McCall’s Coronet magazine interview and, 173
Odom case and, 167–71, 180, 184, 194–96
Odom’s death sentence and, 353
Platt family case and, 48–57, 61, 66, 113–14, 183, 318, 375
routines of, 14–16, 41–42
St. Augustine protests and, 253–54, 256–62, 375
and treatment of juveniles in detention, 99–101
Vickers case and, 311
Reese, Patricia, 14–15, 41–42, 44–45, 50–51, 62–63, 220, 240, 262, 301, 356, 360
Reese, Paul, 14–15, 44–46, 48, 62, 66, 239–40
Roberts, B. K., 251–52, 268
Robinson, W. F. “Red,” 19–22, 37, 41, 94, 123–24, 154, 168, 336, 339
Rodriguez, Francisco, 214–15, 238, 244, 248, 252
Rogers, W. D., 227
Rony, Vera, 165
Roseborough, D. D., 48–49
Rutherford, Amelia, 157–58, 160, 166, 207, 350
St. Augustine, Fla., 331, 357
civil rights protests in, 246, 253–62, 375
St. Petersburg Times, 54, 115, 296, 302, 307
Saunders, Robert, 81–83, 115–16, 180, 198, 244, 248
Scofield, George, 102–3, 106, 116
Scott, Charles R., 322–23, 333, 346–47
Sewell, Doug, 13, 85, 87–88, 154, 171, 247
Shelley, David, 87–88
Shepherd, Samuel, 42–43, 50, 162
Shuler, Robert, 233–39, 243–44, 248, 250–52, 322–23, 333, 367–68
Simon, Tobias, 259–60, 323
Simpson, Bryan, 259–62
Sinclair, DeWitt, 197, 209, 215–16
Smith, D. R., 238–39
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 186, 255–56, 259–60
Southern Manifesto (“Declaration of Constitutional Principles”; Thurmond), 58, 77
Soviet Union, 7, 9, 252
Spears, Bryant “Hamp,” 198
Stephenson, Clarence, 202–5, 207–15
Stevenson, Adlai, 64
Stoiber, Carlton, 345
Stoner, J. B., 258–59
Stoutamire, Ollie, 187–88
Summers, Levi, 233–38
Supreme Court, Florida, 60, 324, 370
Jesse Daniels’s hospital commitment and, 268–69
Jesse Daniels’s sanity hearing and, 276
Fruitland Park rape case and, 252
McCollum case and, 142
Motley and, 76–77
Odom case and, 184, 194
and University of Florida College of Law case, 76–77, 79, 251–52, 268
Supreme Court, U.S., 269
Brown decision, 44, 47, 57–58, 76, 288
Jesse Daniels’s hospital commitment and, 267, 270, 292–94, 371
Donaldson decision, 367
Fruitland Park rape case and, 368
Groveland Boys case and, 42–43, 371
Miranda decision, 297, 305
and University of Florida College of Law case, 76–79, 371
Sweatt, Heman Marion, 76
Taylor, Marlene, 84–90
Thompson, Lester W., 352
Thurmond, Strom, 58, 77
Till, Emmett, 115, 186
Troxler, David, 372
Tucker, Ted, 180–83
Tyler, W. E., 10
University of Florida College of Law case, 75–79, 81–82, 251–52, 268, 293, 369–71
Vickers, Tommy J., 310–11, 318
beating death of, 322–25, 327, 330–33
McCall murder trial and, 324, 329–31
Ward, Susanna, 31–32
Warner, Carl, 306
Warren, Dan, 253, 255, 260–62
Warren, Fuller, 78
Washington, J. C., 204, 210, 212–14
Wass, Charlotte, 233–37, 249, 252, 368
Wass, Sally, 252
Watts, James W., 137–38
Weatherly, Carole, 37–38
White, W. Wilson, 175, 179–80, 183
Wilkins, Roy, 186
Wilkinson, Elmer and Delmer, 225–26
Woods, Jesse, 115–16
Woods, Thomas F.
Jesse Daniels’s legislative hearings and, 307–12, 314–17, 332, 346–49, 353–54
Jesse Daniels’s relief claim and, 307, 311, 332, 346–47, 354, 358, 364–66
Woodward, C. Vann, 58
World War II, 27–32, 60, 138, 150, 153–54, 168, 294, 352, 355
Yates, James L., 90, 156, 223, 369
and break-ins in Leesburg and Okahumpka, 158–60, 166
and Jesse Daniels’s arrest and imprisonment, 95, 97, 301, 361
Jesse Daniels’s confession and, 126, 128, 162, 313, 315, 317, 349
Jesse Daniels’s legislative hearings and, 308, 313, 315, 349
Fruitland Park rape case and, 234, 236, 238–39, 247, 249–51, 317, 368
Groveland Boys case and, 43, 71, 249, 316–17
Knowles rape case and, 17, 19–20, 69–71, 80, 93–95, 97, 106, 112, 126, 128, 151, 153, 158, 160–61, 181, 196, 201–10, 213–16, 239, 298, 308, 315–17, 334–35, 339, 344, 346–47, 349–53
Blanche Knowles’s testimony and, 151, 153
Odom case and, 170, 196, 198–99, 205, 207
Odom’s execution and, 217, 351–52
Young, Durham, 20–21, 106, 290
PHOTO CREDITS
FRONTISPIECE: State Archives of Florida
CHAPTER ONE: Courtesy Daytona Beach News-Journal
CHAPTER TWO: Leesburg Heritage Society
CHAPTER THREE: Ebony magazine
CHAPTER FOUR: Robert W. Kelley, The LIFE Picture Collection
CHAPTER FIVE: St. Petersburg Times/Zuma Press
CHAPTER SIX: Wallace Kirkland, The LIFE Picture Collection
CHAPTER SEVEN: State Archives of Florida
CHAPTER EIGHT: Wallace Kirkland, The LIFE Picture Collection
CHAPTER NINE: Florida Department of C
orrections
CHAPTER TEN: Leesburg Heritage Society (photographer unknown)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Courtesy Cindy Chesley
CHAPTER TWELVE: Bettmann
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Red Morgan
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: J. C. Clancy Photography
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Red Morgan
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Florida Department of Law Enforcement
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Used with permission from the Orlando Sentinel
EPILOGUE: Courtesy Evvie Griffin
HERE: Red Morgan
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