Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of George Armwood
18 October 1933The Somerset County jail and courthouse, Princess Anne, MD
A mob of around two thousand took George Armwood from the Princess Anne jail, mutilated and hanged him, and burned his body at the courthouse. The state identified nine leaders; the county indicted no one.
- People killed
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