Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Michael Fedo about his research on the history behind the lynching of three Black men by a Duluth mob on June 15th, 1920.

Fedo also reads from his book, Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings.

On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attacked the police station in Duluth, pulling Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie from their jail cells. The three young Black men were beaten and hanged by their necks from a lamppost at Second Avenue East and First Street. The men, who were working for a traveling circus, were accused of raping 19-year-old Irene Tusken on the evening of June 14th. Little evidence would be found to corroborate these claims.