Dennis B. Downey

Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625841032
• Artikelnr.: 38100881

Autorenporträt

Dennis B. Downey is professor of history and director of the university honors college at Millersville University (Pennsylvania). He is the author of five books and two book-length web histories, the most recent of which is entitled "The Peopling of Pennsylvania: The Creation of a Multicultural Society" (2011).