2024 Highlights
2024 | Our 5th Anniversary | New Projects | Learning and Teaching | Our Community | Statewide Movement
Community Outreach
In June, MoCoLMP volunteers staffed a table at Kensington’s third annual Juneteenth celebration. We reached many new people to talk about our mission, including some who were shocked to learn there had been lynchings in Montgomery County.
In the fall, we participated in community festivals, including Emancipation Day at Button Farm and Poolesville Day. At both,
we shared our literature and brought the jars of soil that we collected at the three known lynching sites in our county. Many festival goers stopped to learn more and to sign up for our newsletter.
In November, we co-hosted a webinar with Montgomery History on the history of housing segregation in our county and how its impact continues today. The featured speaker was Paige Glotzer, Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, and author of How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960.
Training educators
MoCoLMP Education Committee co-chairs Lesley Younge and Caitlin Atkins gave Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, our regards. They were attending and presenting at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Boston.
