work prepared on behalf of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. It was republished in 1969 and 1997. In October 1934, Kester represented the NAACP in investigating the murder of Lola Cannady in Marianna, Florida, for which Claude Neal, a young African-American man, had been arrested. Neal was brutally lynched in a terrorist spectacle a few days after the murder, before any trial could take place. Afterward the aroused mob attacked up to 200 blacks on the streets and in their businesses, rioting, looting and burning in the black part of town. The governor had to call in the National Guard to restore order in Jackson County. Howard Kester worked as the secretary for the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen from 1934 until 1944, and again from 1952 to 1957. References External links Oral History Interviews with Howard Kester , , from Oral Histories of the American South American activists American Christian socialists American clergy Members of the Socialist Party of America Southern Tenant Farmers Union people