The Lynching Missouri Still Won’t Fully Face Cleo Wright, Sikeston, and the Price of Silence
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The Lynching Missouri Still Won’t Fully Face Cleo Wright, Sikeston, and the Price of Silence
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The Lynching Missouri Still Won’t Fully Face tells the story of Cleo Wright, a 26-year-old Black man lynched in Sikeston, Missouri, on January 25, 1942. His killing became the first federally investigated lynching in U.S. history, but no meaningful justice followed. In this episode of That Doesn’t Make Sense, Michael Porter traces the accusation, the mob violence, the failed prosecution, and the silence that settled over Sikeston for decades — asking what it means when a town and a state remember a crime only halfway
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