Editing Morgan County, West Virginia (section)

===20th century===
On April 10, 1919, racial violence broke out when the [[Morgan County, West Virginia riot of 1919|Morgan County race riot]] was sparked by local business using African-American strikebreakers against local striking white workers.{{sfn|Marcelle|2016|p=}} On the same day of the riots one Hugh Ferguson, a Martinsburg African-American, was accused of criminally assaulting Mrs. Ernest Zimmerman at her home near Brosius, Morgan County (now known as [[Hancock, West Virginia]]). An angry mob of several hundred men formed around the jail hoping to [[Morgan County, West Virginia riot of 1919|lynch]] Ferguson. Sheriff C. R. Hovermale was forced to flee town with Ferguson.{{sfn|The Wheeling Intelligencer|1919|p=1}}