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Tuesday marked the 101st anniversary of the Duluth lynchings, when Black men Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie were killed by a white mob after being falsely accused of raping a white woman. No one was prosecuted for the murders of the three Black circus workers. On Tuesday, about 100 people gathered at the Duluth memorial that honors the victims. The 100-year commemoration was canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A year ago the Minnesota Board of Pardons granted the state's first posthumous pardon to Max Mason, a Black circus worker who was convicted by an all-white jury of the 1920 rape despite no evidence a crime had occurred. "This is 100 years overdue," Gov. Tim Walz said at the time.