Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
Summary
An African American steelworker, Zachariah Walker, was burned to death by a mob outside Coatesville, PA, on August 13, 1911. He was accused of killing Edgar Rice, a white security guard and a former borough policeman. Nationwide outrage led to the NAACP's national anti-ynching campaign and inspired Pennsylvania's 1923 anti-lynching law.
Chapter 1- Tells of the events at the time of the lynching; Chapter 2- Talks about the community reaction to the murder, the investigation, and the Grand Jury indictment of 15 men and boys; Chapters 3 & 4- Discusses the 8 months of trials that failed to convict any of those charged; Chapter 5- Discusses the lynching and it's relationship to demographic and social changes taking place in Coatesville and the nation.
"... Proceedings of the Black History in Pennsylvania Conference held in Pittsburgh on April 5 and 6, 1979"--Introd.
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Part 1. Early Black education -- Part 2. Black life and labor in modern industrial Pennsylvania -- Part 3. Black genealogy and historiography -- Part 4. Curriculum development in Pennsylvania Black history.
The Politics of civil rights in Lancaster, Pennsylvania : a senior thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in partial fulfillmentt of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Physical Description
vi, 854 p. ill., facsims., maps ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliography (p. 761-812) and index.
Contents
The northern states -- The South -- Miscellaneous naval and military records -- Foreign allies -- West Indies -- Appendices. Map of the enslaved population, 1790 Census ; Documenting the color of participants in the American Revolution ; Names as clues to finding forgotten patriots ; The numbers of minority participants in the Revolution.
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This collection was given in memory of the donor's maternal grandparents, David S. Warfel and Clara Haverstick Warfel.
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This journal article describes how an African male came to be sold into slavery in America and how he became a member of the Moravian church community in Bethlehem , Pa. Also included is the autobiography of this man named Andrew which as a member of the church he was required to write. While he remained in slave status, his membership in the church provided him a life more normal than a slave would ordinarily endure.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Volume 112, number 3 (July 1988), p. 433-451Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v.112
Page 50: Group seated on deck, "Wild Cat Falls, August 21, 1903"; Baby in carriage in front of house, "Abram's baby"; Group seated on deck, "Wild Cat Falls, August 21, 1903"; Girl walking down stairs, "Coming from Glen Orchard, August 21, 1903"; "Glen Orchard Club, August 21, 1903"; "Jane Caanan, Pittsburg, Pa., November 1902", African-American woman.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
