News & Events

Learn about slavery, Jim Crow, and the resilience of the historic Black communities that came out of this history in Montgomery County, MD.

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

What happened to them? What could they do and where could they go when they had nothing, and may not have known where to go and how to get there? Learning about our historic Black communities in Montgomery County, MD.

Did 1860s Montgomery County, MD have farms or plantations? Language is important.

Classifying places of enslavement in Montgomery County, MD: plantations or farms?

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.

MoCoLMP 2024: Remembering our shared history is more important than ever. We continued to create and support community (from 641 to 700 members), research and record the history of slavery and emancipation in the county, and hold field trips to spaces where we can continue to learn about race and racism in Maryland and Montgomery County. Find out more...

MoCoLMP held a workshop on how to search house titles for racially restrictive covenants and how to have them removed.

At the MD State Archives looking for names of Montgomery County, MD enslaved & enslavers in the early 1860s.

New projects include Mapping Plantations, Mapping Historic Black Communities, Oral History, and Researching Racial Violence.