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In October 1934 a young white woman was found murdered in the Florida panhandle. Among those who were first suspected was Claude Neal, a black employee of the victim's father. Neal was soon found and arrested by authorities in a neighboring state. Before he could be taken to a place of greater safety, however, a mob arrived, forcibly removed him from the jail, and returned him to Jackson County, Florida. The following day, the mob holding Neal sent out invitations to his lynching. Local newspapers and a radio station, announcing that a "Negro" would be "mutilated and set afire," provided details concerning the place and time of the anticipated event. That afternoon, quite unexpectedly, news of the scheduled lynching was picked up and distributed nationally by the Associated Press. The response of the NAACP and many other concerned people to this news...
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