In the summer of 1911, the town of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was a place of simmering tensions, with a growing population of African Americans and European immigrants living in a segregated and suspicious community. On the evening of August 12th, these underlying frictions erupted into violence. Edgar Rice, a white male and a police officer for the Worth Brothers Steel company, was a well-known and popular figure in the town. His life came to an abrupt and violent end during a confrontation wit
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