In Grand Forks, giving dignity to a man denied justice Wednesday, August 19, 2020
MPR News
The crime is nearly 140 years old. The effort to redress the injustice, more than two decades in the making.
But this month, Grand Forks will finally raise a memorial to Charles Thurber, a Black man in his 30s, who was killed by a mob of white residents there in 1882.
Efforts to memorialize the man about whose life very little is still known — and whose death represents an ugly piece of the city’s story — have risen and quickly fallen since the late 1990s.
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