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

The Brownstown community was founded in 1868 by William Brown, who bought ten acres here.

Racism and racial violence in Montgomery County, MS.

A short history of the Big Woods historic Black community in Maryland the 1800s.

The historic Black community of Sugarland, was founded in 1871 in Poolesville, MD.

The historic Black community of Blcoktown was founded by Thomas A. and Jennie Jackson in 1884

“IT HAPPENED HERE: REMEMBERING THREE LYNCHINGS” was developed by MoCoLMP and reveals the forgotten and nearly-erased history that occurred in our county. Originally focused on the two lynchings that took place in Rockville, the exhibit has recently expanded to include Mr. Peck’s lynching in Poolesville. With site markers and photographs, this exhibit traces the paths of the three lynchings: Mr. George Peck in 1880, Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey in 1880 and Mr. Sidney Randolph in 1896

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.

You are warmly invited to join us at a panel on Saturday at the Poolesville library.

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

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

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

This article talks about current efforts to limit discussion at National Park Service sites of the full history of the U.S.

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

The killing of George Floyd on Monday May 25, 2020 was a seismic event in American history, but not because it was unusual. White folks in the New World have been killing Blacks for hundreds of years. What was different about Floyd’s killing was how unapologetically brazen and flagrant it was. And how visible....

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.

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

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

Saturday, February 22, 2025 3-4:30 p.m. Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library (Silver Spring Library) Racially restrictive covenants...

Sunday, December 8 Walking tour, 10-11:30 a.m. Lunch, 12-1:30 p.m. Freedom House Museum, 2:15-4:45 p.m. Join MoCoLMP in Old Town Alexandria, when we take a walking manumission (being released from slavery) tour, and visit the Freedom House Museum. Sign up for one, two or all three of the days activities: The Freedom's Fight in Alexandria Manumission Tour  provides insight into Alexandria's pre-Civil War history of urban slavery. It also highlights runaway enslaved persons suc