Remembering is Resistance

2024
Highlights

Say Their Names

Mr. George W. Peck (1880) | Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey (1880) | Mr. Sidney Randolph (1896)

Growing

We celebrated our 5th Anniversary. And, our numbers grew to 700.

Learning

Our focus expanded to include projects researching local Black history and resilience.

Organizing

We started a series of field trips to visit historical sites and museums in Maryland.

Our Mission

The Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project seeks to educate and engage communities about our history and the legacy of slavery, racial violence, racial terror lynching and systemic racism by promoting truth, remembrance, reconciliation, and reckoning in Montgomery County, MD.

We are a grassroots organization and a designated Community Remembrance Project of the Equal Justice Initiative.