Join the Alvin Lee Sykes Estate and Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City for the book launch of Show Me Justice: The Happy Life Journey of Alvin Lee Sykes. Show Me Justice tracks the life and career of the late civil-rights advocate Alvin Lee Sykes, who used his self-taught legal knowledge to reopen the dormant murder case of Emmett Till in the early 2000s. He was also tenacious in his investigation of other unsolved murder cases of African Americans from the civil-rights era. In the 1980s, Sykes’s relentless efforts also brought about the federal civil-rights conviction of a white man whom a Missouri jury had acquitted in the beating death of a Black musician at a public park.

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