Sponsor: The State Historical Society of Missouri

This one-hour documentary, released in 2024, tells the story of Cleo Wright, a Black man lynched in 1942, and the failure of the first federal attempt to prosecute a lynching. Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Mo. jail and lynched by a mob. Nearly 80 years later, Denzel Taylor was killed by police in the same community. The deaths of these two Black fathers tell a story about violence, trauma, silence and resilience of many of the town residents over 78 years.

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