A Strange And Bitter Crop
A Strange And Bitter Crop
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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.