Author to write Duluth lynching story from Black perspective
Karen Nance has access to documents from her ancestors, Duluth activists who lived within four blocks of the site of the 1920 public death of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Karen Nance speaks at a news conference at the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial on Monday, April 5, 2021. Her family was active in the formation of Duluth s chapter of the NAACP. Nance is writing a book on that time, using hundreds of pages of journals, which includes their account of the Duluth lynchings. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Author Karen Nance is writing a series of books about the black experience her grandmother lived growing up in Duluth in the early 20th century, and the impact her family felt during the Clayton Jackson McGhie lynchings in 1920.