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Honoring Ethel Ray Nance in Duluth | Duluth News
Duluth’s new downtown education hub is named after Ethel Ray Nance, the city’s most distinguished graduate—a trailblazing civil rights activist, writer, and editor who shattered racial and gender barriers before age 25. Born in Duluth to a father who founded the local NAACP after a lynching, Nance became Minnesota’s first Black stenographer in the legislature and one of its first Black female police officers. A lifelong friend of W.E.B. Du Bois, she quietly championed justice for decades. Now, her legacy is honored in stone as the building that will house district services—finally giving her…
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