A Strange And Bitter Crop

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 12:26 a.m.

b'Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, but didn\'t learn about Claude Neal until he was working on a research paper in high school. When he heard the story, he knew he had to do something.

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