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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.

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

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

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

Take a walk to discover the history of the lynching deaths of Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey in 1880, and Mr. Sidney Randolph in 1896, in...