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6. 'Walk with me'
Sunday, 14 June, 2020
Three to four times a year, the city's human rights officer Carl Crawford offers a Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial tour that starts in downtown Duluth near the site of the old jail and ends at the spot where the men were killed by a lynch mob. While Minnesotans were sheltering in place, Crawford offered his tour virtually. "I want you to walk with me," he says at the start. "I want you to close your eyes and open your hearts. I want you to go back when you had your first job. Your first experience of working. And I want you to walk with me now as we turn the corner to the memorial, but as you do so I want you to do it in silence. I want you to feel that alone. That loneliness that those boys felt. As they were marched up that hill." The Duluth Lynchings is edited by Samantha Erkkila and is a product of the Duluth News Tribune. This episode includes reporting by Samantha Erkkila and Christa Lawler. Music for the podcast is "We Three Kings," composed by "Rudy" Perrault and performed by the Gichigami Piano Trio with Josh Aerie on cello, Sam Black on piano and Laurie Bastian on Violin.
