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Part 1: Civil rights, labor and political leader Nellie Stone Johnson is interviewed by Dan Olson in 1995 as part of MPR's "Voices of Minnesota" series. She died in 2002 at the age of 96.
Part 2: "Postcard from a Lynching." An MPR documentary from 2001 by Chris Julin and Stephanie Hemphill about the 1920 lynching of three black men in Duluth.

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