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	Podcast:		Code Switch
	Episode:		Claude Neal: A Strange And Bitter Crop
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:26:28
	Publish Date:		2020-02-25 23:00:49
	Description:		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 in high school. When he heard the story, he knew he had to do something. Our final story about black resistance this month is about resisting the urge to forget history, even when remembering is incredibly painful.
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