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Silence in Sikeston | Love & Grief for a Young, Black Father
A mother talks about her son's life in Chicago and Sikeston, MO before his death by police.
A mother talks about her son's life in Chicago and Sikeston, MO before his death by police.
Two residents recall the day they, as young children, witnessed the lynching of Cleo Wright in 1942.
How a lynching and police killing 78 years apart haunt the rural community of Sikeston, Missouri.
Traveling by train, Black Americans had to endure second-class citizen accommodations and attitudes.
Black Americans forced to go North for advanced degrees return home to fight Jim Crow in the South.