Silence in Sikeston | Witnesses to a Lynching
Season 8
Episode 12
About the Episode
Carleen Harrington and Mable Cook were only girls growing up in Sikeston, Missouri when Cleo Wright was lynched by a white mob in front of the Black community. The violence of that 1942 day haunted these two young residents, and the small city, for decades leaving them silent to the situation. Now, they are sharing how the experience affected them.
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Segregation Scholarships | Preview
Black Americans forced to go North for advanced degrees return home to fight Jim Crow in the South.0:30 -
Silence in Sikeston | Preview
How a lynching and police killing 78 years apart haunt the rural community of Sikeston, Missouri.0:30 -
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