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The Negro Entry Book : a document of Lancaster City's antebellum Afro-American community

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Author
Hopkins, Leroy.
Date of Publication
1984
prior to 1843. More importantly, however, the �144 JOURNAL Entry Book is an invaluable guide to Lancaster City's Antebellum Black population. To understand the conditions that led to the issuance of the ordi- nance it is necessary to sketch briefly race relations in Lancaster City prior to 1820. Slavery
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by Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins.
Author
Hopkins, Leroy.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1984
Physical Description
142-180 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 88, no. 4
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
African Americans
Lancaster (Pa.) - Race relations.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 88, number 4 (1984), p. 142-180Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.88
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No crooked death : Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and the lynching of Zachariah Walker

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Author
Downey, Dennis B.,
Date of Publication
c1991.
Call Number
364.134 D748
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Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser.
ISBN
0252017390 (alk. paper)
Author
Downey, Dennis B.,
Place of Publication
Urbana
Publisher
University of Illinois Press,
Date of Publication
c1991.
Physical Description
xv, 174 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Blacks in the New World
Notes
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.
Subjects
Walker, Zachariah, - d. 1911.
Lynching - Pennsylvania - Chester County
African Americans
Trials (Murder) - Pennsylvania - Coatesville.
Coatesville (Pa.) - Race relations.
Additional Author
Hyser, Raymond M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
364.134 D748
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The Philadelphia Negro; a social study

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Author
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Date of Publication
1899.
Call Number
326 D816
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by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton.
Author
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Published for the University,
Date of Publication
1899.
Physical Description
xx, 520 p. illus. 26 cm.
Series
Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law, no. 14
Contents
Chapters: CHAPTER I. THE SCOPE OF THIS STUDY / CHAPTER II / THE PROBLEM / CHAPTER III. THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA, 1638-1820 / CHAPTER IV. THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1896 / CHAPTER V. THE SIZE, AGE AND SEX OF THE NEGRO POPULATION / CHAPTER VI. CONJUGAL CONDITION / CHAPTER VII. SOURCES OF THE NEGRO POPULATION / CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION AND ILLITERACY / CHAPTER IX. THE OCCUPATIONS OF NEGROES / CHAPTER X. THE HEALTH OF NEGROES / CHAPTER XI. THE NEGRO FAMILY / CHAPTER XII. THE ORGANIZED LIFE OF NEGROES.CHAPTER / XIII. THE NEGRO CRIMINAL.CHAPTER / XIV. PAUPERISM AND ALCOHOLISM.CHAPTER / XV. THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE NEGRO.CHAPTER / XVI. THE CONTACT OF THE RACESCHAPTER / XVII. NEGRO SUFFRAGE.CHAPTER / XVIII. A FINAL WORD.
Subjects
Afro-Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Domestics.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
African Americans
United States - Race relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Eaton, Isabel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 D816
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