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1920 Duluth Lynchings

Duluth, Minnesota, MN · On map

A white mob lynched three Black men — Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie — after false rape accusations in Duluth, Minnesota. The atrocity galvanized civil rights organizing in the state and is widely taught as a landmark episode of racial terror.

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