‘100 years overdue’: Minnesota grants first posthumous pardon in case connected to Duluth lynchings

DULUTH – With a gun to his head, Max Mason told a police officer he had done no wrong.

Yet the black circus worker was convicted by an all-white jury of raping a white woman in Duluth in 1920 despite no evidence a crime had occurred.

And for 100 years, the official record reflected that lie.

No more.