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Michael Green was an African American man who was lynched by a band of masked men near Upper Marlboro, Maryland on September 1, 1878.[1]
Green was arrested for assaulting Miss Alice Sweeny on August 26, 1878, and held at the jail in Upper Marlboro.[1] Threats of lynching were openly made and were held off by the vigilance of Sheriff James N.W. Wilson.[1][2] After several days, a band of masked men removed Green from the jail, placed a noose around his neck and hung him 15 feet in the air from a tree outside of town.[1] His body remained dangling from the tree and was observed the next morning.[1]
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- ^ a b c d e "Lynching at Upper Marlboro" (PDF). The Kent News. September 7, 1878. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^ "Sheriffs, Prince George's County, Maryland". msa.maryland.gov. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
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