Author and journalist Cody Mcdevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.
Figures such as Marcus Garvey spoke out in Pittsburgh against it as newspapers throughout the country published condemnations..
Area Ku Klux Klan members celebrated the creation of a sundown town and increased their own intimidation practices.
An estimated two thousand people uprooted their lives in response to the Racist edict.
They were given less than a day to move or would face crippling fines or jail time and were forced out at gunpoint.
In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor of Johnstown ordered every African American and Mexican immigrant who had lived in the city for less than seven years to leave.
Author and journalist Cody Mcdevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history
