Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial

Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial in Duluth, at the corner of North Second Avenue and East First Street. Photograph by Flickr user artstuffmatters, July 11, 2009. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, Duluth

On June 15, 1920, a mob of 10,000 people oversaw the lynching of three African American circus workers falsely accused of rape in downtown Duluth. In the face of community silence after the event, the lynchings faded from public memory. Efforts to acknowledge the lynchings, remember the victims, and begin community healing led to the identification of the three workers’ graves in 1991 and the creation of a memorial plaza in Duluth in 2003.

“Charles A. Lindbergh: The Boy and the Man”

“Charles A. Lindbergh: The Boy and the Man”

Paul Granlund’s statue “Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man,” installed on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Gabriel Vanslette, April 21, 2011. CC BY 3.0

Inscription at the base of “Charles A. Lindbergh: The Boy and the Man”

Inscription at the base of “Charles A. Lindbergh: The Boy and the Man”

Description: The inscription at the base of Paul Granlund’s statue “Charles A. Lindbergh: The Boy and the Man,” installed on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Gabriel Vanslette, April 21, 2011. CC BY 3.0

“Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man”

“Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man”

Paul Granlund’s statue “Charles A. Lindbergh: The Boy and the Man,” installed in Paris. Photograph by Melissa Peterson, May 21, 2017. Used with the permission of Melissa Peterson.

Paul Granlund with Russell Fridley and Elmer L. Andersen

Paul Granlund with Russell Fridley and Elmer L. Andersen

Sculptor Paul Granlund (center left) with Minnesota Historical Society Director Russell Fridley (left right) and Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen (right), 1985. Granlund’s statue “Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man” is at center right.

Paul Granlund looking at a map of St. Paul with Russell Fridley and Elmer L. Andersen

Paul Granlund looking at a map of St. Paul with Russell Fridley and Elmer L. Andersen

Sculptor Paul Granlund (right), creator of “Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man,” examines a map of the Minnesota State Capitol grounds as Minnesota Historical Society Director Russell Fridley (left) and Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen (center) look on.

Paul Granlund with his sculpture, Russell Fridley, and Elmer L. Andersen

Paul Granlund with his sculpture, Russell Fridley, and Elmer L. Andersen

Sculptor Paul Granlund (at left) with Minnesota Historical Society Director Russell Fridley (right) and Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen (center right), 1985. Granlund’s statue “Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man” is at center left.

“Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man”

“Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man”

Paul Granlund’s statue “Charles A. Lindbergh—The Boy and the Man,” installed on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. Photograph by Flickr user Cliff, June 6, 2008. CC BY 2.0

Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial, St. Paul

On May 24, 1985, the sculpture “Charles Lindbergh—The Boy and The Man” by Paul T. Granlund was dedicated in front of a crowd of approximately 1,000 people on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. Commissioned by the Lindbergh Fund and the Minnesota Historical Society, it honored the aviator’s 1927 transatlantic flight and his childhood roots in Minnesota. It did not address Lindbergh’s support of American isolationism and antisemitism leading up to World War II—additional dimensions of his complex legacy.

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