Besides seeing the pictures of Emmett Till’s dead body, I have never seen any other pictures or heard any in depth stories about lynching. It is something that naturally made me feel extremely uneasy and uncomfortable, but I think the part that made me the most upset was the fact that there were so many pictures of these lynchings that occurred. People had gone out to these “events” with their whole families even from neighboring towns and cities and had made sure to document these killings forever as a form of a souvenir, some even going further and bringing a part of the now-dead human with them as well. It personally makes me extremely uncomfortable seeing these pictures and reading their captions with dates supplied and seeing how recent
