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BONUS: The Lynching Of Claude Neal : Up First In this episode from NPR's Code Switch, a story from eighty-five years ago, when a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida. They were there 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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BONUS: The Lynching Of Claude Neal

BONUS: The Lynching Of Claude Neal

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In this episode from NPR's Code Switch, a story from eighty-five years ago, when a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida. They were there 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.