Raymond M Hyser: 1 book
Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker
Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
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...
