On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands.
Yet for years the incident was nearly forgotten.
This updated, second edition of The Lynchings in Duluth includes a new preface by the author, additional research and notes, and suggestions for further reading.
``This account of racial violence in the early twentieth century is a genuinely startling and illuminating contribution to our understanding of racial justice in the United States in the twenty-first.
Many Americans have found it convenient to think that episodes like this come only from the Jim Crow-era Deep South.
The Lynchings in Duluth is a powerful reminder of the broader American pattern.
`` --James Fallows, The Atlantic ``A chilling reconstruction of a 1920 racial tragedy.
Combining hour-by-hour, day-by-day narrative with expert scholarship based on interviews, suppressed documents and news reports, Fedo skillfully portrays Northern prejudice and violence.
`` --Los Angeles Times ``This tense book punches out a story of devastating fury.
As pointed as a Klansman's cap, this book conveys the horror of mob action--and the disturbing truth that it knows no region.
`` --Milwaukee Journal.
Minnesota Historical Society Press The lynchings in duluth: second edition, paperback/michael w. fedo
