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Title: Postcard Image of the lynching of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie.
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: Governor Burnquist to Order Investigation.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: Negroes Arrested in Virginia are Guarded.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: These Negroes Had Bad Record in South Bend.
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Title: Young Woman Victim Will Fully Recover.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: Warning Given to Snelling as Mob Started Trouble.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: Troops Guard Duluth After Lynching of 3.
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Title: Troops Sent to Duluth by the Governor.
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Title: Infuriated Mob Takes Three Negroes from Police Station Hanging Them to Light Pole.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: Police Forbidden to Use Their Firearms to Withhold Rioters.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: Grand Jury is Called to Fix Responsibility for Hanging of Men.
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Title: Topics of the Times.
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Title: Duluth's Disgrace.
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Title: Move to Punish Duluth Lynchers.
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Title: The Duluth Lynching.
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Title: Superior Police to Deport Idle Negroes at Once.
Duluth Lynchings | Text

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Title: Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963).
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: Calvin L. Brown (1854-1923), Chief Justice of Minnesota Supreme Court.
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: Homer B. Dibell (1864-1934), Associate Justice of Minnesota Supreme Court.
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: William T. Francis (November 28, 1869 - July 15, 1929).
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: J. Louis Ervin ( ? - August 24, 1947).
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: Clarence R. Magney (January 11, 1883 - May 13, 1962), Mayor of Duluth.
Duluth Lynchings | Photographs

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Title: Murnian Declared Unfit For His Job.
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Title: Negroes Did Not Rape Girl.
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Title: The City's Shame.
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Duluth Lynchings

Background and historical documents relating to the tragic events of June 15, 1920

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