News & Events

MoCoLMP is naming & mapping enslavers & enslaved in 1860s Montgomery County, MD, and researching their connections to the 110 named historic Black communities that sprang up around them.

Quilts, history, teachers, and racial covenant research, all happening in Montgomery County, MD.

Please join us on Saturday, April 26 for our annual meeting. Lynda Tredway will show her quilts, and we'll update you on our projects.

Saturday, February 22, 2025 3-4:30 p.m. Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library (Silver Spring Library) Racially restrictive covenants...

Located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum celebrates the significant accomplishments and struggles of African...

“From Restrictive Covenants to Redlining: The National History of Housing Segregation” Montgomery History, in partnership with MoCoLMP...

Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Hold Hearing on October 5, 2024 The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation...

July is the 144th anniversary of the 1880 lynching of Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey in Rockville, MD.

Map plantation sites, collect oral histories, research sites of slave markets, study reparations and more....

Help us remember. Help us reconcile. Help us create reckoning and promote truth. We invite you to join us as we work to promote truth,...

On Sunday, March 3, over 65 people gathered to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project’s...

When: Sunday, March 3 from 3-5 p.m. Where: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville, 100 Welsh Park Drive, Rockville, MD...

See the gallery of images from the dedication of markers remembering lynching victims John Diggs-Dorsey and Sidney Randolph.

JANUARY 10, 1880 George W. Peck, a 22-year-old Black man who lived and worked in Beallsville, Maryland, was lynched near this site by a...

Rev. Chuck Copeland reads the marker, newly unveiled on Oct. 22, 2023, acknowledging the 1880 lynching of Mr. George Peck.

Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey was lynched in Rockville on July 27, 1880. The Conversation Circle will discuss the lasting legacy of this...

Join MoCoLMP and our partner, the Montgomery County Commission on Remembrance and Reconciliation at the marker dedication ceremony...