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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!

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

A historic Black community in Montgomery County, Maryland Hawkins Lane, Bethesda, MD. Photo by Neile Whitney 2025. Driving up Hawkins Lane in Chevy Chase, Maryland, still gives a sense of what this small kinship community must have been like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This kinship community was founded by James H. Hawkins in 1893, when he bought three acres of land that had in until 1867 belonged to a white farmer named James Hawkins. Residents in the late 20t

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

Martinsburg is the only historic black community in Maryland that still has a church, school, and Lodge Hall.

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

A historic Black community in Montgomery County, MD River Road School, circa 1930s. Archival photo courtesy of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) The River Road/Crow Hill community of about 33 families ( (Roberts 2017) was about where the McDonald’s is now, northwest of Little Falls Parkway. The Clipper Lane and Dorsey Lane kinship communities were down the road a little way and across the street. Two acres of Crow Hill belonged to John Burle

This legislation calls for a deep dive on “the history, operations, and resident deaths” at the facility and the wooded area that was its cemetery. That site includes about 300 gravestones and cinder blocks that mark where some of the Black boys were buried from the 19th into the 20th centuries.

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

A historic Black community in Montgomery County, Maryland Macedonia Baptist Church, Bethesda, MD. The heart of the River Road communities: Clipper Road, Dorsey Road, Crows Hill In the 1900 U.S. census, John and Martha Clipper and their six sons and two daughters lived in Bethesda, Maryland next to George Clipper (his son? 27 years apart in age) and George’s wife Lucy and their three children. The adult men were working as day laborers. Apparently the census takers had stopped

The Rock Spring Club was one of the hotels that were built near the C&O Canal and employed local Black residents.

The River Road/Crow Hill community of about 33 families ( (Roberts 2017) was located in Bethesda, MD about where the McDonald’s is now.

Miller's Flats was a small residential neighborhood in Bethesda Maryland.

The Pine Top community on Riffle Ford Rd. was linked to the Brownstown community in Germantown.

Albert and Eliza Thompson’s two great-great grandsons, both of us pastors, were standing in the same cemetery where our ancestors were laid to rest. For the first time, the fifth generation of their lineage walked this hallowed ground. We represented the third generation born into freedom in the United States of America. 

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

The Sellman community grew up between the farm they had been enslaved on and the train tracks.

The community’s first church, Potomac Grove Colored Church, was built on Violettes Lock Road in 1893 by a community formed by workers at the local stone quarry, near the C&O Canal.