Mobbing of Cyrus Moses, Columbia, Pennsylvania

Title
Mobbing of Cyrus Moses, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Cyrus Moses BurleighCyrus Moses Burleigh
Date
1851-02-08
Subject
1851-02-08 Columbia, Pennsylvania CMBurleigh prevented from speaking by a mob of whites - full-length article on this; also note that there is a visual of the building where he was supposed to speak. Shirk, Willis L., Jr. 1993. Testing the Limits of Tolerance: Blacks and the Social Order in Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1800-1851. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 60:1:35-50 (January 1993).
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