Media & Resources
It Happened Here: Remembering Three Lynchings
MoCoLMP's photo exhibit is focused on the remembering the journeys of Montgomery County's three known lynching victims: Mr. George Peck, Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey, and Mr. Sidney Randolph. The photos also show community remembrance ceremonies and how people working together ry to find some kind of justice.
MoCoLMP’s Work featured on NBC News 4
In an NBC News 4 interview, County Executive Marc Elrich talks about the history of Montgomery County and its slave-holding past. He mentions the work of MoCoLMP in preserving and telling our true history.
​“Now We Know Their Names,” published in The Atlantic
Noted author Clint Smith, inspired by his attendance at the MoCoLMP remembrance and soil collection ceremony held in Rockville, Maryland in September 2021, has published, “Now We Know Their Names: In Maryland a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.” Smith's New York Times best-selling book, How the Word is Passed was selected as a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021 and was winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. (Updated Feb. 2023)