Elias Clayton

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Elias Clayton

Birth
USA
Death
15 Jun 1920 (aged 18–19)
Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA GPS-Latitude: 46.8399799, Longitude: -92.0667696
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Black victim of a 1920 triple lynching in Duluth, Minnesota. The three were members of a circus passing through Duluth at the time a 17-year-old white girl was attacked.Elias Clayton was lynched on the evening of June 15, 1920 along with two friends, Isaac McGhie and Elmer Jackson.
Black victim of a 1920 triple lynching in Duluth, Minnesota. The three were members of a circus passing through Duluth at the time a 17-year-old white girl was attacked.Elias Clayton was lynched on the evening of June 15, 1920 along with two friends, Isaac McGhie and Elmer Jackson.