Description On a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania Steel town.
Despite this scrutiny, a conspiracy of silence shro.
Investigated by the NAACP, the horrific incident garnered national and international attention.
At the time of his very public murder, Walker, an African American millworker, was under arrest for the shooting and killing of a respected local police officer.
Description On a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania Steel town