Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town by Raymond M. Hyser, Dennis B. Downey

Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town

Raymond M. Hyser, Dennis B. Downey

162 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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On a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania steel town. At the time of his very public murder, Walker, an African American millworker, was u...

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