Gilbert King in the Times Union

"The black women of the town would make him bag lunches to bring to court. The black men would stay up and guard him while he slept. Long before becoming a U.S. Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall was a charismatic and courageous criminal defense attorney. He believed that the best way to fight Jim Crow laws in the South was to go into the region's courtrooms, despite continuous death threats, to represent falsely accused black defendants."

Elizabeth Floyd Mair of the Times Union profiles and interviews Gilbert King, who visits the Writers Institute this coming Thursday, about his Pulitzer-winning book on an early battle in the legal career of a young Thurgood Marshall, Devil in the Grove.

More in the TU:  http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Chronicling-a-fight-for-justice-4829393.php

Picture:  Thurgood Marshall in 1936 at the beginning of his career with the NAACP.

More about our events with Gil King:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/king_gilbert13.html