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In 2003, the city of Duluth erected a memorial to the lynched men. [2] In 2020, Max Mason, who was a co-worker in the same traveling circus as the three men who were lynched, was convicted in court after the lynchings, was granted the first posthumous pardon in the history of the state. [3]
Kinkkonen was buried in an unmarked grave in the indigent section of Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth, a few rows from where the victims of the 1920 Duluth lynchings would later be buried. [20] In 1993, the Finnish-American cultural society, Työmies, placed a marker on Kinkkonen's grave. It reads: Olli Kinkkonen. 1881–1918. Victim of Warmongers ...
A graph of lynchings in the US by victim race and year [1] The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African-American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of ...
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Minnesota" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Cutler, James E., Lynch-Law: An Investigation Into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York, 1905) Dray, Philip, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, New York: Random House, 2002. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. 119–23.
A history of Duluth written in 1910 says: "Of the handful remaining in 1859 four men were unemployed and one of those was a brewer. ... Another lynching in Duluth ...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, [1] is a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. It is intended to focus on and acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice in America.
Pages in category "History of Duluth, Minnesota" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen; M. Montessori School of ...