Duluth lynchings | |
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Part of the Nadir of American race relations | |
Location | Duluth, Minnesota |
Target | Six arrested suspects |
Victims | Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie |
Perpetrators | Mob (estimated 1,000 - 10,000 participants) |
Motive | The alleged rape of Irene Tusken |
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On June 15, 1920, three African-American (Black) circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, suspects in an assault case, were taken from the jail and lynched by a White mob of thousands in Duluth, Minnesota. Rumors had circulated that six Black men had raped and robbed a nineteen-year-old White woman. A physician who examined her found no physical evidence of rape.
The 1920 lynchings are the only known instance of lynching of African-Americans in Minnesota. Twenty other lynchings were recorded in Minnesota, and included mainly Native Americans and Whites.[1] Three men were convicted of rioting, but none served more than fifteen months. No one was ever prosecuted for the murders.
The state of Minnesota passed anti-lynching legislation in April 1921, and lynchings have not been recorded in Minnesota since.[1] In 2003, the city of Duluth erected a memorial to the lynched men.[2] In 2020, Max Mason, who was convicted in court after the lynchings, was granted the first posthumous pardon in the history of the state.[3]
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