Silence in Sikeston | In the Aftermath of Trauma
Clip: Season 8 Episode 12 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Sikeston residents share how they had to live following the lynching of Cleo Wright.
Rhonda Council talks with her grandmother Mable Cook about the lynching of Cleo Wright and her response to witnessing the violence while fellow Sikeston resident Larry McLellon shares his experience as a young Black man during that time.
Funding for Silence in Sikeston provided by the Ford Foundation. Funding for Local, USA provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Wyncote Foundation.
Silence in Sikeston | In the Aftermath of Trauma
Clip: Season 8 Episode 12 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Rhonda Council talks with her grandmother Mable Cook about the lynching of Cleo Wright and her response to witnessing the violence while fellow Sikeston resident Larry McLellon shares his experience as a young Black man during that time.
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Say, "It'll go away, you should not talk about it."
- [Rhonda] It's gotta kind of ea witnessing something like that.
You just can't pretend that it didn't happen.
You can't.
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And she told me, "Don't you ask no questions about Cleo Wright."
She knew what it was all about and she didn't want to take no c on that happening to me.
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