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"An event has happened upon which it is difficult to speak and impossible to remain silent"
Edmund Burke
This website gives you an inside look on the lynching that took place in Duluth, Minnesota, June 15, 1920. The obvious point I am trying to make by creating this outlet of information is that racism and hate crimes still take place all over the world and they down right wrong. The only thing we have to be thankful for now-a-days is that these crime acts aren't as frequent.
My opinion on this event is very firm, I am disgusted and outraged that the human race doesn't accept the human race. For one to be so narrow-minded places my pity in others. I feel sympathy for the children who must be raised within the still existing racist society. I just wish for one day that the people of the world wil let go of their pride and stubborness and look around. Just look around to what they have built for themselves and the people of the future......an eternity of problems.
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| Just a sample of the gruesome tragedy |
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| June 15 1920, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, Isaac McGhie |
On the afternoon of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, several black men were arrested and accused of raping a young white woman. News of the rape spread quickly throughout the town and occupied every front page of every newspaper. Although a physician examined the body and there was no evidence of any kind of rape or assualt the town and her father overlooked that fact and later that day, using anything the mob of men could get there hands on, 3 of whom were arrested were pried from the jail walls and lynched on a light pole on the corner of First Street and Second Ave. East.
Throughout the country, this lynching was known as "thorough house cleaning" . Citizens of even Duluth were outraged at the lack of ability or urge of the police men to protect the young black men.
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