Pennsylvania
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 1911, Zecharia Walker, a black man charged with killing the town constable in a fight, was dragged from his hospital room and burned alive by a mob. Pieces of his charred bones were afterward distributed as souvenirs.
William F. Pinar, The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (NY: Peter Lang, 2001), 1174