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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“On June 14, 1920, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie… were lynched by a mob of white residents in Duluth, Minnesota… in town working with a traveling circus when two white teenagers falsely claimed that they and three other Black circus workers had attacked them and raped a local white woman. Newspapers reported the alleged assault, and false rumors soon spread that the woman had died from her injuries… there was no evidence that an assault had occurred.”