....Ku Klux Klan (KKK) activism in Florida increased as a reaction against the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Sixty one (61) African-Americans (Negros) were lynched in Florida from 1921-1946. Among the more notorious murders by Klan members in Florida was the lynching of the Negro Claude Neal in Marianna Fl. Neal’s lynching was followed by a race riot in the town of Marianna in which white KKK rioters attempted to drive all blacks out of the city. ......