Racism Around Me

Cited history, on the map where it happened

Lynching & racial terror

The Duluth lynchings

15 June 1920First Street and Second Avenue East, Duluth, MN

A mob of thousands broke into the Duluth police station and lynched Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie, three Black circus workers held on an accusation a doctor had already found no evidence for.

People killed
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