Growing up, Karen F. Nance knew her grandmother, Ethel Ray Nance, as caring, kind and full of love for her grandchildren, opting always to talk about their lives over her own. After Ethel Ray was admitted to a nursing home at the age of 90, she gifted Karen a collection of her writings about her.
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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)