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Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, Isaac McGhie
Duluth, Minnesota
June 15, 1920

A mob of five-thousand people dragged six circus workers from a cell for alleged assault of a white girl at the circus grounds in Duluth Minnesota. A hastily thrown together trial found three of the defendants "not guilty". The others were hanged. A later investigation by civil authorities found that none of the hanged could have been involved.

For more information about these young men, visit their memorial site.

 
     
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