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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…
Cayton's weekly., October 11, 1919, "Negro Revolt", Image 1
Page 1 of a scathing description of the social injustices that blacks often had to endure under white rule: specifically the creation of the "revolt" excuse in order to exact violence on people of color.