Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, Inc.

222 East Superior Street, Suite 327, Duluth, MN 55802

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Organizations

About Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, Inc.

The Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial stands at East 1st Street and North 2nd Avenue East in downtown Duluth, and commemorates three Black men, Clayton, Jackson and McGhie, who were lynched by a mob at that corner. The organisation that maintains it operates from an office at 222 East Superior Street.

Its work is present-tense rather than only commemorative. It states its purpose as fostering racial justice through education, reconciliation and healing, and it runs scholarships, a driver's education programme and community events including Duluth's annual Juneteenth programme (Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, accessed 2026-08-14).

For a reader new to the city, the memorial is worth knowing about as one of the more significant pieces of public commemoration in Duluth, and it sits on a downtown corner that many people pass without noticing. The organisation's own site is the right place to read the history properly; this guide does not attempt to retell it.

Get involved: Community events including the annual Juneteenth programme, education initiatives, scholarships and a driver's education programme.

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Nearby

Neighborhoods it serves

Downtown Duluth
Duluth · Central

Duluth's civic core: three miles of skywalk, and a housing market made almost entirely of converted upper floors.

 East End / Endion
Duluth · East

Duluth's boom-era hillside, where the mansions and the streetcar city meet.
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Where these facts come from

Last reviewed 2026-08-14 by Guide editorial.