[FROM THE ARCHIVES] The Day the Law Broke: The Duluth Lynchings and Their Legacy
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On a warm June night in 1920, the John Robinson Traveling Circus pulled into Duluth, bringing a sudden influx of Black laborers to a northern shipping port divided by strict racial lines. Hours after the big top closed, an unverified allegation of assault triggered a law enforcement roundup that marched Black canvasmen to the Duluth city jail. Driven by inflammatory rumors and organized by a mobile megaphone campaign, a white mob of up to ten thousand citizens laid siege to the station, slicing police hoses and overwhelming a paralyzed police force. On this episode of…
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