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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 →
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 →
…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 →
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 →
