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Coatesville and the lynching of Zachariah Walker : death in a Pennsylvania steel town /

"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 under arrest for the shooting and killing of a r...

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Main Author: Downey, Dennis B., 1952-
Contributors: Hyser, Raymond M., 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charleston, SC : History Press, ©2011.
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Walker, Zachariah, > -1911.
Lynching > Pennsylvania > Coatesville > Case studies.
Trials (Murder) > Pennsylvania > Coatesville.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Trials (Murder)
Coatesville (Pa.) > Race relations.
Pennsylvania > Coatesville.
Case studies.
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Call Number: UPA/Ch HV 6462 .P4 D67 2011
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