In the summer of 1924, Federal Prohibition Agent Daniel S. Cleveland, a white male, found himself in the line of fire in the quiet outskirts of Meridian, Mississippi. On July 10th, what began as a routine operation to dismantle an illicit moonshine still would abruptly end in a fatal ambush, cutting short the life of the dedicated agent.
Agent Cleveland, along with fellow officers, had returned to the site of the still with the intention of destroying the equipment they had previously sei
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