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A 3 page overview of this early twentieth century testament to racism and prejudice. The account of the lynching of three young black men by a mob angered by accusations that the men raped a white girl, this paper serves as a reminder of how quickly things can get out of hand when racial prejudice takes the upper hand to a fair legal process. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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since their early part of the twentieth century. In those earlier years of our history there was considerable racial tension between whites and blacks in particular. That tension
ultimately resulted in numerous atrocities. One of the most shocking of these atrocities occurred on June 15, 1920 in Duluth Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society, 2003). In this horrendous
event three black men, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie, were forcibly taken from the jail where they were being held on rape charges, beaten, and hanged from a
lamp post (Olsen, 2003). They suffered a fate no living creature should ever have to suffer. Now known simply as the "1920
Duluth Lynching", the event described above occurred because the black men were charged not with the rape of a black woman but of a white woman, an offense which was
inexcusable in the early twentieth century. The men had only recently arrived in Duluth in the employee of a traveling circus, the John Robinson Circus that was scheduled to
perform in a free street parade and to present a formal performance on June 14, 1920 (Minnesota Historical Society, 2003). Clayton, Jackson and McGhie were not performers in the
circus, however. They were cooks and simple laborers Clayton, Jackson and McGhie. They were accused of their crime by a white Duluth youth who claimed the men had
raped his date (Olsen, 2003). On the night of the scheduled circus performance Irene Tusken (age nineteen) and James Sullivan (age
18) were there (Minnesota Historical Society, 2003). Although no one is sure of the events that unfolded that night, the following morning Sullivans father placed a call to Police
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