White people making up a lynch mob pose for a photograph after murdering three African American men (Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie) in Duluth on June 15, 1920.
Lynching is widely believed to be something that happened only in the South. But on June 15, 1920, three African Americans, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, were lynched in Duluth, Minnesota.
Headline and article in the Minneapolis Star (February 23, 1960) reporting on the conviction in the Minneapolis Federal District Court of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) for participation in a sex trafficking racket.
Marilyn Ann Tollefson, a sex worker with a close relationship to Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) in the 1950s. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, February 17, 1960.
Minneapolis Tribune headline and article reporting on the acquittal of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) in the murder of Walter W. Liggett, February 19, 1936.