News & Events

MoCoLMP’s fearless founder Tony Cohen will set off on May 4 on his trek to Canada following the trail of the Underground Railroad.

MoCoLMP has been busy this spring--read what we've been up to!

MoCoLMP was delighted to be invited to speak with the producers, cast and audience of the production “Appropriate,” at the Olney Theatre.

This play is a searing satire of a family digging through their recently deceased patriarch’s crumbling estate is both gut-splittingly funny and shocking in its confrontation of conveniently forgotten family history.

A walk from Maryland to Canada to explore the impact of the Underground Railroad.

Jason Green talks about his new book at People's Book A standing-room-only crowd filled People’s Book in Takoma Park on February 23, to celebrate Jason Green’s Too Precious to Lose-A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility . Jason, a Montgomery County native, has served on the County Commission on Remembrance and Reconciliation since its inception. He has long been a strong partner of MoCoLMP, which organized the event. Jason told stories from the book, from growing up o

MoCoLMP will be highlighting our county’s 250th with a rich array of events

MoCoLMP lays a wreath in memory of Mr. George Peck, lynched in 1880, and talks about how to push back against racism.

Book talk, Jason Green, Feb. 23, 2026 at peoples books in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Saturday, January 10, 2026 2-2:30 p.m. Poolesville Presbyterian Church sanctuary, 17800 Elgin Rd., Poolesville  Join MoCoLMP and our community partners as we remember Mr. George Peck , lynched in Poolesville in 1880. Pastor Howard (Chuck) Copeland of the Hosanna Community Church, Ed Reed , Poolesville Town Commissioner, Neile Whitney and Derrick C. Tabor , MoCoLMP Steering Committee members, will deliver brief remarks. We will also mark the passing of Mr. Peck by laying fl

A MoCoLMP photo exhibit We are pleased to announce the opening of our updated exhibit, It Happened Here: Remembering Three Lynchings , at...

MoCoLMP's new, expanded exhibit on the three lynchings in 1880s and '90s Montgomery County, MD premieres Sep. 22 in Poolesville, MD.

A public recognition ceremony on Friday, May 16, marked the completion of the County’s lynching commemoration site in Rockville. The ceremony featured an address by Dr. Bobbie Legg, a Montgomery County native and descendant of one of the perpetrators of the 1896 lynching of Sidney Randolph. Randolph was lynched on July 4, 1896.

Because of repeated attacks on Black history and the truth, the MoCoLMP Steering Committee believes it necessary to restate our...

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...