Lynching of Cleo Wright

" Winner of the 1999 Missouri History Book Award On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-cen

Author: Dominic J. Capeci
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/08/1998
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.26w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780813120485

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1998 pg. 626
Library Journal 05/01/1998 pg. 117
Publishers Weekly 05/18/1998 pg. 62
Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1681

About the Author
Capeci, Dominic J.: - Dominic J. Capeci, Jr., professor of history at Southwest Missouri State University, is the author of Layered Violence: The Detroit Rioters of 1943 and Race Relations in Wartime Detroit.

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