A black man in Mississippi was almost lynched. The way he saved himself and what happened after is amazing.

A black man in Mississippi was almost lynched. The way he saved himself and what happened after is amazing.

Laurence C. Jones was the founder and long-time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in Rankin County, Mississippi.

A noted educational innovator, Jones spent his adult life supporting the educational advancement of rural African-American students in the segregated South.

In his popular book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, author and motivator Dale Carnegie told a story of how Jones had survived a near-lynching in 1918 by demonstrating to the white mob how passionate he was about his efforts to educate African-American children.

Several accounts support Carnegie's account that after being persuaded not to lynch him, the crowd actually ended up collecting money to give to Jones to support his school.

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