The 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright and the failed federal prosecution continue to reverberate in Sikeston, Missouri. Seventy-eight years later, the community is rocked by the police killing of a young Black father in 2020, prompting an examination of the complex relationships between history, trauma, silence, and resilience.
Silence in Sikeston
In a small Missouri town, the reverberations of two gruesome murders, one in 1942 and another in 2020, shatter the facade of racial harmony, revealing the festering wounds of historical trauma and the enduring effects of systemic racism.
