About Us
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.
Statement on White Supremacy
June 2025
The MoCoLMP mission statement calls us to promote truth, remembrance, reconciliation, and reckoning in Montgomery County. As our democracy is being pulled apart and historical truth attacked, we strengthen our commitment to educate and engage our community about the history of race relations in our county regarding the legacy of slavery, racial violence, racial terror lynching and systemic racism, as well as the resilience, vibrancy, and strength of our African American communities. Only by facing our past can we move toward a more equitable and just society. MoCoLMP pledges to continue researching and sharing this critical history as a way of strengthening community, deepening knowledge and fostering understanding.
Our Story
The Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project (MoCoLMP) is a grassroots organization that came together in 2017.
Originally formed to organize soil collections at the three known sites of lynchings in Montgomery County, its mission soon expanded to include educating the community about the history of lynching and racial terrorism in Montgomery County, Maryland.
In 2019, MoCoLMP was approved as an Equal Justice Initiative Community (EJI) Remembrance Project.
While MoCoLMP’s goals include obtaining historical markers at each lynching site, as well as procuring an EJI county memorial monument memorializing the lynchings of George Peck (January 10, 1880), John Diggs-Dorsey (July 27, 1880), and Sidney Randolph (July 4, 1896), the organization’s emphasis is on the community education that is an integral part of the process of obtaining the markers.
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