Will the cellphone footage of the latest police shooting of an unarmed African-American finally be a tipping point? Gilbert King most certainly hopes so. The 53-year-old author has been at the forefront of shedding light on such injustices through his two fascinating, meticulously researched books: 2008’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search of Justice in the American South and 2012’s Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. King discusses each, the latter of which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, as part of The Mercantile Library’s 1835 Lecture. 6:30 p.m. Monday. $15 members; $20 for everyone else. 414 Walnut St., 11th Floor, Downtown, RSVP to 513-621-0717.
This article appears in Apr 15-21, 2015.
