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Local residents standing near the site of Zachariah Walker’s lynching
This image was taken the morning after Zachariah Walker's murder at the site of his lynching. Zachariah was dragged from the hospital by a lynch mob in Coatesville, PA, after being accused of killing a White security guard and former policeman, Edgar…
Workers at the Midvale Steel Plant in Coatesville, Pa.
A group of African American and immigrant workers at Midvale Steel and Ordinance Company's Plant in Coatesville, Pa. c. 1910. Pennsylvania had enormous demand for labor in steel mills, and within a decade of incorporating African American workers,…
Workers at the Midvale Steel Plant in Coatesville, Pa.
An African-American worker and a white worker at Midvale Steel and Ordinance Company's plant in Coatesville, PA c. 1920. Co-operation between African American and white workers was essential to Pennsylvania's prominent steel industry, because of the…
Lukens Steel Company, Coatesville, PA, circa 1940.
Postcard of the Lukens Steel plant in Coatesville, PA.
"Shearing Steel Right Down Their Alley" c. 1939
An image of five black Lukens Steel Mill workers taken in Coatesville, Pennsylvania during the late 1930s. Pompey Robinson was the trimmer and William Taylor, Samuel Allen, James Pearson and John Lewis were side-hands. This image depicts the clothing…