Biography
George Armwood was a Black worker whom a mob removed from Princess Anne jail on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and lynched on October 18, 1933. Page 2 of the November 8 Daily Worker reports a procession through the town and torture before his killing. It describes a provisional New York investigation committee, a corresponding Baltimore committee and a planned November 18–19 anti-lynching conference and public trial. Allegations identifying officials and leading citizens as mob instigators are attributed to Captain Spencer’s affidavit and the newspaper, not adjudicated findings. The underlying jail accusation and exact admission day are not supplied in this issue. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n268-nov-08-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
Daily Worker, February 23, 1934: The February 22 Washington dispatch prints Bernard Ades’s anti-lynching testimony and prepared statement challenging the accusation against Armwood and criticizing Maryland officials for failing to prosecute his lynchers, including the release of known suspects. These remain attributed defense claims, not adjudicated findings or a new custody event. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n047-feb-23-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 592. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
