This is a story about Duluth and Minnesota when it bent over backward to prove an innocent man guilty of murder to mask the murder of three innocent men for a crime no one committed – except 10,000 angry white Duluthians who had watched a little too much Fox News oops, my bad, Birth of a Nation.
A Black man imprisoned in Minnesota a century ago in a case that included the infamous lynchings of three other Black men for the alleged rape of a white woman received a posthumous pardon Friday, … View the article. https://flip.it/Vdb3Mj
My Grandfather’s alma mater Park College set up a Center for the Study of World War 1 which has spent the last couple years combing the records for minority soldiers from that war who were passed over for awards to thank them for their service to America. Those are just a century off too but better late than never……..for today’s generations.
