Superior Police to Deport Idle Negroes at Once.

Type of event: Lynchings

Location: Superior; Wisconson

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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.