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<p>The exact details of what happened to Laurence C. Jones one day in 1917, are uncertain. </p>
<p>But several reports tell that on a certain day, a lynch mob of angry young white men chased the African American school teacher, surrounded him, and threw a noose around his neck. </p>
<p>Jones was an influential and compassionate educator.</p>
<p>He had devoted his entire life to helping the poorest of the poor, the most underprivileged children, wherever he could find them.</p>
<p>In Mississippi, Jones had started a school in a sheep shed to teach poor kids in a county with an 80% illiteracy rate. When he learned about their lack of education, he had taken it upon himself to change that. And he did.</p>
<p>He was also black, during a time when African Americans were lynched for minor offenses.</p>
<p>His “offense” was supposedly inciting a riot, because he was overheard at a speech earlier using words that were misconstrued as calls to take violent action, which they were not.</p>
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<p>So on that day, he stood surrounded by this mob, his life in their hands.</p>
<p>And Jones began telling them about his school. Perhaps how needy these kids were, and how he stepped in to change that.</p>
<p>He told them how he has been trying to raise money to pay for school supplies.</p>
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<p>He told them that they misunderstood him when he was giving that speech, and he was not trying to incite any kind of riot.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s said that he even cracked a couple jokes to lighten the mood.</p>
<p>It worked. All of it. They angry crowd had a change of heart.</p>
<p>And then something truly miraculous happened.</p>
<p><font size="5">The lynch mob, so moved by Jones’ words, decides not only to let him go&#8230; </p>
<p><i>but to raise money for his school themselves!</i></font></p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>“No man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him”.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a quote from Jones.</p>
<p>Jones devoted his entire life to helping others learn, grow, and understand. </p>
<p>By turning an angry mob into donors to his cause, he showed the selfless power of compassion, love, and turning against hate, which would have been difficult, faced with a mob after your life because of who you are.</p>
<figure id="attachment_3869" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3869" style="width: 768px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://www.historyhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Piney-Woods-laurence-c-jones-history-hustle.jpg" alt="Piney Woods laurence c jones history hustle image" width="768" height="1024" class="size-full wp-image-3869" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3869" class="wp-caption-text">Jones&#8217; school, Piney Woods.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Sources:</p>
<p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2n0a7y1g_N8C&#038;q=jones#v=snippet&#038;q=laurence%20jones&#038;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad</a><br />
<a href="https://sites.aph.org/hall/inductees/jones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hall of Fame: Laurence C. Jones</a><br />
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=A5YrHFTaKaoC&#038;pg=PA138&#038;dq=Laurence+Clifton+Jones&#038;hl=en&#038;newbks=1&#038;newbks_redir=0&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwiU1J-i6YjmAhWCv54KHXcuByoQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&#038;q=Laurence%20Clifton%20Jones&#038;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Crisis, Volumes 6 &#8211; 7</a><br />
<a href="https://archive.is/20131204053930/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/808240360" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Des Moines Register</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_C._Jones
" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a></p>
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