Man laid to rest in Chester County after brutal lynching death in 1911

More than a century after his brutal death, Zachariah Walker was finally given a dignified burial.

It happened during a solemn ceremony on Wednesday that drew a multiracial crowd committed to honoring his legacy and confronting the injustice of his lynching.

Walker, a Black man, was killed in 1911 after a self-defense shootout with a white deputy…

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