Joseph Breedlove, 62, male, was a constable in Dumas, Arkansas, when his life ended on September 21, 1940. He had spent decades keeping order in a small Delta community defined by farm roads and close-knit neighborhoods, working the kind of post where everyone knew his name and where a knock at the door often came from someone he’d helped before. On that September day, he was killed by gunfire in the line of duty, a fact preserved in memorial rolls that record the bare contours of the tragedy
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