Rosedale: 100 Years | Decades of history shaped local race relations before mayor’s edict | Local News
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 26, 2023
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Many local, national and international events impacted race relations in the United States and Johnstown leading up to the 1923 Rosedale incident and Mayor Joseph Cauffiel’s order banishing Black and Mexican people from the city.
Here is a look at a few of those moments.
• Dec. 18, 1865: The 13th Amendment is officially proclaimed as part of post-Civil War Reconstruction, thus ending slavery in the United States. A few days later, on Dec. 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers form the first Ku Klux Klan chapter.
