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…lynchings in Montgomery County: George Peck and John Diggs-Dorsey in 1880 and Sidney Randolph in 1896. We present below the most current research and information on the Montgomery County lynchings,…Read More →
…County Remembrance and Reconciliation Commission held a Remembrance Weekend recognizing two men who were the victims of racial terror lynchings in Montgomery County: Mr. John Diggs-Dorsey and Mr. Sidney Randolph….Read More →
This page provides biographical information on more than 60 individuals named in the newspaper accounts during the coverage of the case against Sidney Randolph: May through November, 1896. Those who…Read More →
…of Parties Unknown: The 1880 Lynchings in Montgomery County, by Librarian/Archivist Sarah Hedlund, featuring the history of the two 1880 lynchings in Montgomery County: George Peck and John Diggs-Dorsey. …Read More →
…Mob law on Delmarva: Cases of lynchings, near-lynchings, and race riots of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia 1870-1950. Self-published. Equal Justice Initiative. (2017). Lynching in America: Confronting the legacy of racial…Read More →
The second lynching in Montgomery County, Maryland, took place less than six months after the first. John Dorsey, also known as John Diggs, a Black man in his early twenties,…Read More →
Originally published quarterly and now biannually by Montgomery History, The Montgomery County Story is a scholarly journal of research focusing on the history of the people, places, events, and organizations…Read More →
…in the Montgomery County Story (Montgomery History’s bi-annual journal) on the three lynchings in Montgomery County and on the 75-year history of the Montgomery County Historical Society. Since 2018 she…Read More →
…1896 “Jury Holds Randolph,” June 13, 1896 “George Neale Set At Liberty,” June 14, 1896 “Avenged the Murderer,” July 4, 1896 “Feeling at Gaithersburg,” “Two Maryland Lynchings,” and “Lynchers Not…Read More →
