Editing Port Jervis, New York (section)

===Lynching and Racist incidents===
On June 2, 1892, [[Robert Lewis (lynching victim)|Robert Lewis]], an African American, was [[Lynching in the United States|lynched]], hanged on Main Street in Port Jervis by a mob after being accused of participation in an assault on a white woman.<ref name="Lynching at Port Jervis. – Robert Jackson, a colored man, hanged by a mob"  >{{cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/06/03/104132685.pdf|title= Lynching at Port Jervis. – Robert Jackson, a colored man, hanged by a mob |work=[[New York Times]]|date=June 3, 1892 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title=Bob Lewis’ Encounter with the ‘Great Death:’ Port Jervis’ Entrance into the ‘United States of Lyncherdom | url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=ho_pubs | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908063928/http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=ho_pubs | archive-date=2017-09-08}}</ref> A grand jury indicted nine people for assault and rioting rather than Lewis's lynching.<ref name="Port Jervis Lynching indictments"  >{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/06/30/104138410.pdf|title=Port Jervis Lynching indictments |newspaper=New York Times|date=June 30, 1892 }}</ref> Some literary critics argue that this event influenced [[Stephen Crane]]'s 1898 novella ''[[The Monster (novella)|The Monster]]''. Crane lived in Port Jervis from 1878 until 1883 and frequently visited the area from 1891 to 1897.<ref>Wertheim, Stanley. ''A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia''. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-313-29692-8}}. p. 195</ref>

In the mid-1920s some residents in the area formed a [[Ku Klux Klan]] chapter, in the period of the KKK's early 20th-century revival. They burned crosses on Point Peter, the mountain peak that overlooks the city.<ref name="Boys get ‘K.K.K.’ warning">{{cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/13/107066826.pdf|title=Boys get 'K.K.K.' Warning – Port Jervis Youths are Ordered to restore crosses to Point Peter|work=[[New York Times]]|date=August 13, 1922 }}</ref>

[[File:Port Jervis, NY crop.jpg|thumb|center|675x675px|A view of Port Jervis showing the [[Mid-Delaware Bridge]] to [[Matamoras, Pennsylvania]] on the far right and [[New Jersey]]'s [[High Point (New Jersey)|High Point]] on the [[Kittatinny Ridge]] on the far left]]
[[Image:Port Jervis Parade July 14 2007.jpg|thumb|The parade on July 14, 2007, celebrating the 100th year as a city]]