Editing Jackson County, Florida (section)

===Post-Reconstruction era to present===
Violence by whites against blacks in the county continued after Reconstruction. Nine African Americans were lynched here after Reconstruction, most around the turn of the century. But notorious lynchings of individual men also took place later.

In 1934, [[Claude Neal]], an African-American suspect in the murder of a young white woman, was tortured, shot and hanged in a spectacle lynching that was announced beforehand on the radio and in a local paper.<ref name=JSTOR>{{cite journal|last=Youngblood|first=Joshua|title="Haven't Quite Shaken the Horror": Howard Kester, the Lynching of Claude Neal, and Social Activism in the South During the 1930s|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|date=Summer 2007|volume=86|issue=1|pages=1, 3–4|jstor=30150098}}</ref> It was covered by national newspapers, arousing condemnation. In addition, Neal's lynching was followed by a white riot in Marianna, in which whites attacked the black section of town and blacks on the street, injuring 200, including two police officers, and causing much property damage. [[Howard Kester]], a prominent Southern evangelical minister who tried to improve conditions, assessed the economic and class issues related to the racial violence.<ref name=JSTOR/> In 1943 the last lynching in the county was conducted. Cellos Harrison, an African-American man, had been twice convicted by an [[all-white jury]] and sentenced to death. He was taken from the county jail in Marianna by a white mob and hanged while his case was being appealed.<ref>Tameka Bradley Hobbs, ''Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home'', Oxford University Press, 2015</ref>