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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.

Jim Alexander with Gordon Parks

Jim Alexander (left) with Gordon Parks at Clark College, Atlanta. Photograph by Jim Alexander, February 8, 1988. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gordon Parks at the Civil Rights March on Washington

Gordon Parks at the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963. National Archives via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

College football players

Football players at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photograph by Gordon Parks, 1943. Public domain.

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes photographed by Gordon Parks, 1943. Wikimedia Commons via Library of Congress. Public domain.

Students and teacher in home economics class

Students and their teacher in a home economics class, Daytona Beach Florida. Photograph by Gordon Parks, 1943. Wikimedia Commons via Library of Congress. Public domain.

Richard Wright

Richard Wright photographed by Gordon Parks, May 1943. Wikimedia Commons via Library of Congress. Public domain.

“A young boy who lives near the nation’s capital”

“A young boy who lives near the nation’s capital.” Photograph by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information, June 1942. Public domain.

“American Gothic”

“American Gothic,” a photograph of government janitorial worker Ella Watson by Gordon Parks, Washington, DC, 1942. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2000. Photograph by John Matthew Smith. CC BY-SA 2.0.

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