Claude Neal

On October 26, 1934 our dear freind Claude Neal was brutally lynched for a crime he didn't commit. Claude was never charged and all the evidence against him was purely circumstantial. He was seized by white men from jail and brutally murdered in cold blood. He was then put on spectacle for all of Jackson County, Florida where his corpse was shot, castrated, and burned. The sherriff brought down his body after the lynching and when he refused to put it back up Claude Neal's entire family and the African American community was terrorized by having their homes burned down in revolt by the mob. No one was ever charged of a crime and a young man is dead. We now rememeber this young man's life from the day he was born in 1911 to the day he died at age 23 in 1934.