Superior Police to Deport Idle Negroes at Once.
Type of event: Lynchings
Location: Superior; Wisconson
Document date:
Document type: Newspaper(s)
Citation:
Duluth News Tribune, June 17, 1920, page 1.
“Superior Police to Deport Idle Negroes at Once”
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SUPERIOR POLICE TO DEPORT IDLE NEGROES AT ONCE
Acting
Chief Osborne Issues Order; Carnival Discharges
‘Plantation Show’
Employes.
“We are going to run all idle negroes out of Superior and
they’re going to stay out,” said Acting Chief of Police Louis
Osborne of that city last night.
All Negro employes of a carnival now in
Superior were discharged yesterday afternoon and told to get out of the city by
the management of the shows.
“For several years we have had colored
employes traveling with our shows,” said Larry Boyd, manager of the
carnival, “but out of sympathy with the employes of the show and the
citizens of Superior and Duluth, because of the terrible occurrences in Duluth,
I have discharged them all and I shall never hire another one, even though I
have never as yet had any trouble with them.”
Many Walk Out.
As a result of this action, the management of the shows have closed down
one of their attractions, depicting plantation days and have employed white to
do the work formerly done by the negroes.
Several calls were received at the
police station yesterday afternoon from people on the outskirts of the city
telling of seeing colored people walking out of the city, and from all
indications the carnival people are still moving.
Chief of Police Murphy of
Duluth, assisted by several deputies, removed the three negroes from the Douglas
county jail yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock, but their destination could
not be learned.
Left in Autos.
The party left the city in automobiles. The trio were brought to Superior
early Wednesday morning, after having been “tried” at the Duluth
police headquarters. Nathan Green, one of th negroes held at the Douglas county
jail, was at first reported as having been hanged by the Duluth mob. “All
the negroes evidenced their harrowing experience across the bay,” said M.
J. McGuire, sheriff of Douglas county, “and every one of them maintained
their innocence, but declared that their three companions, hung by the Duluth
mob, were implicated in the assault.