This week, people in Duluth are honoring the three black men lynched by a huge mob in 1920. The story is getting a lot of attention after decades of silence. But Duluth is still quiet about its *other* lynching. Two years earlier, at the tail end of World-War-One, a small mob tarred and feathered a Finnish working man in Duluth, and hanged him from a tree. To this day, few people in Duluth know the story. Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Julin has this report.
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