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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > race and crime > key people in race and crime > Zachariah Walker

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Zachariah Walker  

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  • On August 13, 1911, a mob of allegedly more than 1,000 people lynched a Black man, Zachariah Walker, just outside of the borough of Coatesville, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Walker had been accused of killing a security guard, who was also a former local police officer, at a Coatesville steel mill 2 days earlier. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Walker, Zachariah]

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