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Edgar Rice

Case from Coateville, PA dated Aug 12, 1911

Victim Details

Man T. Edgar Rice

Male

White / Caucasian

Coateville

PA

1911-08-12

42

Edgar

Rice

07/09/2026

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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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