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Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker
Dennis B DowneyRaymond M. Hyser
其他書名
Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2012-10-02
主題History / African American & BlackTrue Crime / HistoricalHistory / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
ISBN16258410359781625841032
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FbV2CQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋“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 officer. Investigated by the NAACP, the horrific incident garnered national and international attention. Despite this scrutiny, a conspiracy of silence shrouded the events, and the accused men and boys were found not guilty at trial. More than 100 years after the lynching, authors Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser bring new insight to events that rocked a community.