Clayton, Jackson and McGhie Resource List

June 15, 2020 marked 100 years since the lynching of Elias Clayton, Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson. Follow links on resource list working to unpack the environment that lead to the horrific deaths of Clayton, Jackson, and McGhie and its lasting community impacts.

"On the evening of June 15, 1920, three black men, wrongly accused of raping a white woman, were abducted from the Duluth, MN, City Jail. A mob numbering between five and ten thousand people savagely beat and tortured these three young black men, then hung them from a lamppost