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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.

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.

Linden-Lyttonsville in Silver Spring underwent significant urban renewal in the 1970s. We talk with a historic descendant about its effects.

Suzanne Johnson of the Sugarland historic Black community in MD remembers the self-sufficient community and the delicious food they made.

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

By the 1800s over 500 enslaved persons worked 25,000 acres of farms, orchards, quarries, and ironworks....

Touring the sites of the Tulsa Race Massacre & John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park.

Join MoCoLMP on Sunday, July 9, from 1-3 p.m. for a tour of the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery (near Olney, MD). In...

You are invited to join MoCoLMP on Saturday, April 22 at 1 p.m. for a tour of the historic African American community of Martinsburg, in...