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Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds, and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919

Name: Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds, and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919
Start: 2025-02-24T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-24T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Council Bluffs Library

February 24 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Author and journalist Theodore Wheeler discusses the societal and personal factors that helped form his novel — Kings of Broken Things — an immigrant coming-of-age story set amid the political, economic and racial tensions surrounding the 1919 lynching of Will Brown.