Duluth police station

Duluth police station

Police station in Duluth after being damaged by the lynch mob that murdered Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie on June 15, 1920.

Cellblock in Duluth police station

Cellblock in Duluth police station

Cellblock in Duluth police station damaged by the lynch mob that murdered Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie on June 15, 1920.

Interior of police station damaged by lynch mob

Interior of police station damaged by lynch mob

Interior of the Duluth police station damaged by the lynch mob that murdered Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie on June 15, 1920.

White lynch mob posing with murdered African American men

White lynch mob posing with murdered African American men

White people making up a lynch mob pose for a photograph after murdering three African American men (Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie) in Duluth on June 15, 1920.

Duluth Lynchings

Lynching is widely believed to be something that happened only in the South. But on June 15, 1920, three African Americans, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, were lynched in Duluth, Minnesota.

Judge Edward Devitt

Judge Edward Devitt

Edward Devitt, the judge who sent Kid Cann to federal prison, ca. 1980.

Kid Cann in handcuffs

Kid Cann in handcuffs

Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) handcuffed and led into federal custody, 1961. Photo by Don Black, Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Newspaper headline and article announcing Kid Cann’s 1960 conviction

Newspaper headline and article announcing Kid Cann’s 1960 conviction

Headline and article in the Minneapolis Star (February 23, 1960) reporting on the conviction in the Minneapolis Federal District Court of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) for participation in a sex trafficking racket.

Marilyn Ann Tollefson

Marilyn Ann Tollefson

Marilyn Ann Tollefson, a sex worker with a close relationship to Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) in the 1950s. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, February 17, 1960.

Newspaper article and headline published after Kid Cann’s 1936 acquittal

Newspaper article and headline published after Kid Cann’s 1936 acquittal

Minneapolis Tribune headline and article reporting on the acquittal of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) in the murder of Walter W. Liggett, February 19, 1936.

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