S.T.O.R.I.E.S.

Historical Timeline

Sequential Timeline of Racist Incidents, Events, and Sites

Place Duluth, Minnesota Clear place All places
1920
1920
cultural violence

1920 Duluth Lynchings

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 …

Duluth, Minnesota, MN
African American Civil rights movement Racial violence