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Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial: Nonprofit Mission Award Winner
Posted byMary Poggione on 23 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Awards, History, Regional History, nonprofit
The Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial nonprofit foundation has won a well-deserved Nonprofit Mission Award for its role in fighting racism.
The memorial, dedicated to the victims of the 1920 lynchings in Duluth, was unveiled in 2003, but since then, the organization has remained active in developing programs for community education and school curriculum.
If you would like to read the history of the lynchings in Duluth, check out Michael Fedo’s The Lynchings in Duluth or try Warren Read’s memoir The Lyncher in Me about his being the great-grandson of one of the men responsible for the crime.
Minnpost ran an article yesterday about all of the Nonprofit Mission Award winners.
Minnesota on the Map
Posted byAlison Aten on 25 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Event, History
Our colleagues in the Minnesota Historical Society collections department have been digitizing the society’s collection of maps. The scans are now online and viewers are able to enlarge and zoom for more detailed views. Many of the maps are featured in the book, Minnesota on the Map by David Lanegran and are on view only through September 7th at the Minnesota History Center.
