Postcard From a Lynching, radio broadcast

Collection — Box: CD

Identifier: S6027

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

“Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future” is a Minnesota Public Radio broadcast that is COPYRIGHT restricted. The program was produced and written by Ms. Stephanie Hemphill and Mr. Chris Julin of Duluth’s MPR affiliate station. It was aired June 7, 2001 as part of a week of events in Duluth, Minnesota planned by the MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. The Committee sought to commemorate the deaths of three African-American circus workers in Duluth on June 15, 1920. The victims, lynched by a mob, were Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie. The Committee seeks to place a visible memorial downtown at the site of the lynching. The week’s events had national media coverage.

[a number of copies of this CD have been distributed for educational uses]

Dates

Creation: 2001 June 7

Creator

Minnesota Public Radio, Duluth affiliate (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.

Biographical / Historical

Minnesota Public Radio® is one of the nation's premier public radio stations producing programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences. With its three services — News & Information Service, Classical Music Service and The Current — operating a 40-station regional radio network and serving a regional population of 5 million people, MPR has 103,575 members and more than 900,000 listeners each week, the largest audience of any regional public radio network.

Since its origins as a single classical music station in 1967 at KSJR in Collegeville, Minnesota Public Radio has earned nearly 1,000 broadcasting and journalism awards, including seven George Foster Peabody Awards (dubbed the "Oscar of broadcasting"), six Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award and a GRAMMY Award.

Minnesota Public Radio broadcasts on 40 stations that serve Minnesota and its neighboring communities and 40 translators providing additional local coverage.

Most areas are served by both a classical music station and a news and information station. One location is covered by a single station that combines both services. Two locations are served by a classical music station, a news and information station, and The Current. The public inspection files of all Minnesota Public Radio stations are available on the Web. Duluth, MN/Superior, WI station is WSCN at 100.5 FM and WSCD at 92.9 FM

Extent

1.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

“Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future” is a Minnesota Public Radio broadcast which was produced and written by Ms. Stephanie Hemphill and Mr. Chris Julin of Duluth’s MPR affiliate station. It was aired June 7, 2001 as part of a week of events in Duluth, Minnesota planned by the MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. The Committee sought to commemorate the deaths of three African-American circus workers in Duluth on June 15, 1920. The victims, lynched by a mob, were Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie.

Physical Location

This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526.

General

This collection is part of the Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections, which are housed in the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives at the Kathryn A. Martin Library.