Did you know Montgomery County has a history of lynching?

Join the Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project and Montgomer History for a free program.

As part of a growing national effort initiated by the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, the Montgomery County (Maryland) Lynching Memorial Project works to create greater awareness about the racial terrorism of lynching that took place in our county. We seek to further local conversations that advance racial reconciliation across the county.

Program highlights:

• Michael V. WIlliams, Social Studies Resource Teacher and Co-County Coordinator for the Minority Scholars Program, John F. Kennedy HS will give a snapshot on race relations and post-reconstruction in the US in 1880 and the racial climate in Montgomer County in the late 1800s;

• Sarah Hedlund, Archivist and Libraryian at Montgomery History, will provide an overview on the three confirmed lynchings in MoCo, focusing on two in Rockville;

• Tony Cohen, historian, Founding Director of the Menare Foundation and a leader of the MoCo Lynching Memorial Project will address the question: How do we know what we know?” by focusing on specific artifacts associated with lynching, e.g. maps, photos, articles, “the hanging tree”

A Q&A session and light refreshments will follow the program.

For additional information contact: mocolynchingmemorial@gmail.com