Cody McDevitt

Banished from Johnstown (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines one of the worst civil rights injustices in Pennsylvania history-the 1923 banishment of Black and Mexican residents from Johnstown. In response to the fatal shooting of four policemen in 1923, the mayor of Johnstown ordered every African American and Mexican immigrant who had lived in the city for less than seven years to leave. They were given less than a day to move or would face crippling fines or jail time. Many were forced out at gunpoint. An estimated two thousand people uprooted their lives in response to the racist edict. Area Ku Klux Klan members celebrated the creation of a "sundown town" and increased their own intimidation practices. Meanwhile, figures such as Marcus Garvey spoke out against the unjust action as newspapers throughout the country published condemnations. In Banished from Jonestown, historian and award-winning journalist Cody McDevitt examines the events and impact of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439668849
• Artikelnr.: 59614589

Autorenporträt

Cody McDevitt is an award-winning journalist and the founder of the Rosedale Oral History Project, which is the basis for Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania. Recently, he released a compendium of firsthand accounts of veterans who fought in World War II called Answering the Call: Somerset County during World War II. He is also the coauthor of Pittsburgh Drinks: A History of Cocktails, Nightlife & Bartending Tradition, which is available on Amazon and in select bookstores locally. He lives near Pittsburgh and works for the Somerset Daily American.