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t. e. On June 15, 1920, three African-American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, suspects in an assault case, were taken from the jail and lynched by a White mob of thousands in Duluth, Minnesota. Rumors had circulated that six Black men had raped and robbed a nineteen-year-old White woman.
US$225.897 million (2023) Total equity. US$230.407 million (2023) Number of employees. c. 1,200 (September 2023) Website. www.duluthtrading.com. Duluth Holdings Inc., which primarily sells goods through its Duluth Trading Company brand, is an American workwear and accessories company. [1]
George Bonga (August 20, 1802 – 1874) was a fur trader, entrepreneur and interpreter for the U.S. government, who was of Ojibwe and African descent, fluent in French, Ojibwemowin and English. At the age of eighteen, he served as an interpreter for Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan Territory during a treaty council with the Ojibwe at Fond du Lac ...
September 3, 2022 at 9:00 AM. The three Belleville drum and bugle corps are long gone but certainly not forgotten. Every sweaty mile marching the streets of Belleville and other more distant towns ...
Belleville is a village in Dane and Green counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,491 at the 2020 census. Of this, 1,909 were in Dane County, and 582 were in Green County. The Dane County portion of Belleville is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Green County portion is part of the Monroe ...
The African-American experience in Belleville, where Wyatt was lynched, was vastly different from that of his hometown of Brooklyn. Black residents were the majority in Brooklyn and "intimately wed to the town's power structure". Belleville in contrast had few black residents and a civil rights movement in its earliest stages. Despite being in ...
The Fighting Illini host Wisconsin on Dec. 10 and come to Madison on Feb. 18. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin men's basketball 2024-2025 Big Ten schedule ...
Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen. "Olli Kinkkonen, 1881–1918, victim of warmongers." Olli (Olof) Kiukkonen Kinkkonen (June 10, 1880 – September 18, 1918) [1][2][3] was a Finnish-American dockworker and logger. He was lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by the Knights of Liberty on September 18, 1918, for renouncing his American citizenship because he ...