Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919
Speaker: Theodore Wheeler Sponsored by the New Cassel Retirement Center
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New Cassel Retirement Center 900 N 90th St., Omaha, NE, United States
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Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds, and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919
New Cassel Retirement Center 900 N 90th St., Omaha, NE, United StatesTed 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. Held at the New Cassel Retirement Community on 11/2 at 1 pm.