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Montgomery County proclaims Remembrance and Reconciliation Month, memorializes three lynching victims
Summary
The County Council and County Executive jointly read a proclamation marking November as Remembrance and Reconciliation Month, formally acknowledging three documented racial terror lynchings in the county between 1890 and 1896 and highlighting memorial markers and community work to document and reconcile that history.
Montgomery County formally proclaimed November as Remembrance and Reconciliation Month on Nov. 4, 2025, in a ceremony emphasizing truth-telling, memorialization and ongoing efforts to reconcile the county's history of racial terror.
Council Vice President Will Jawando, who introduced the proclamation, said the county must remember and repair harms and highlighted that three documented lynchings in the county -- John Diggs Dorsey, George Peck and Sydney Randolph -- had occurred in the 1890s.
County Executive Mark Elrich…
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