Black History Month - Day 18

Lynchings Happened in the South...Right? Oh wait....

(Trigger warning: some of these images may be difficult to look at)

I grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which if you know geography is just across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska. I had heard stories of lynchings in the south when I was in school and I always assumed that the indiscriminate killing of black people only happened there. That’s where…