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

By Dennis Downey, Raymond M. Hyser
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By Dennis Downey, Raymond M. Hyser
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“A compelling narrative that moves crisply through the murder, the lynching, and the cover-up by silence that local residents thereafter affected.”—The Journal of American History

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 respected local police of...

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