I am currently taking an African American History course and yesterday in class we were told about a rather disturbing experience. However, it has such a strong relavance to the Lynching story that I am going to provide a short version of it. It is very disturbing so consider this as the warning before you continue on to read.
Mr. Cluade Neal, a black man, was arrested for the murder of his white wife. Because he was married to a white woman and thought to have murdered her, his punishment was very severe. He was tortured for over 12 hours, hung and when he was almost dead,he was cut down where his privates were cut off and forced into his own mouth, he was then cut, burned and finally the mob killed him. When he was killed the mob then drug his body around the town square. How can anyone stand by and let something like that happen? There was no trial, or anything. He was a suspect and this was how he was treated. Its horrible, but its a story that even pictures can not tell.