re: #48 HappyWarrior

I understand. Just awful. I can’t fathom what that must have been like. I’ve reading a wonderful book about the Great Migration and I have to say, it seems to me that many African-Americans were in a way more immigrants than actual immigrants. So many in white America either have no idea what men like your grandfathers went through for generations or they have no attempt to want to understand.

One of the worst states for lynchings was Indiana. It was the national headquarters for the revival of the KKK and had many, many “sundown” towns. Of course, we also know that St. Louis was no picnic. Hell, a lot of the midwest remains very segregated.