- Start of Claude Neal art
Claude Neal (?? – 27 October 1934) was a African-American farmhand lynched for allegedly raping and murdering a Caucasian woman. The mob, invited by newspaper and radio ads to a 'lynching party', made him engage in forced autocannibalism as part of the lynching.
References
edit- Patterson, Orlando (1999). Rituals of blood: consequences of slavery in two American centuries. Basic Civitas. p. 197. ISBN 158243039X.
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- Marianna, Daily Times-Courier October 26 1934