The Stain on Pennsylvania's History Is Lifted
Posted: Sun. Jan. 01, 2017 10:47 am
For more than a century, the death of David Pierce has been a stain on Western Pennsylvania as the only victim of a lynching in the region.
The African American man was said to have shot and killed Sanford White, a white superintendent of a coke works near Dunbar, Fayette County, on the morning of Dec. 19, 1899, after Mr. White intervened during a fight between Mr. Pierce and another white coke executive, Richard Cunningham.
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The African American man was said to have shot and killed Sanford White, a white superintendent of a coke works near Dunbar, Fayette County, on the morning of Dec. 19, 1899, after Mr. White intervened during a fight between Mr. Pierce and another white coke executive, Richard Cunningham.
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