1919 Coatesville call to arms

1919 Coatesville call to arms

Part of Red Summer
Coatesville and its steel plant
Date	Late July 1919
Location	Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States

The 1919 Coatesville call to arms was when the black community of Coatesville, Pennsylvania formed a large armed group to prevent a rumoured lynching. Only later when the armed group had surrounded the jail to prevent the lynching did they learn that there was no suspect and no white lynch mob.