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Montgomery County commission highlights markers for three lynching victims and urges reconciliation
Summary
The Commission on Remembrance and Reconciliation described installing three public markers and collecting soil samples from lynching sites in Montgomery County, named the victims, and framed the work as part of a longer process of truth-telling and community rebuilding.
The Commission on Remembrance and Reconciliation told Montgomery County officials it has installed three markers and collected soil samples at sites where three Black men were lynched, naming the victims and calling the work an early step in a long path toward truth and reconciliation.
Jason Green, a member of the commission, said the commission was formed by a 2019 county council resolution sponsored by Council member Will Giwando and former council members Hans Riemer and Craig Rice and that the markers aim to "give a sense of the life that these men lived" rather than only record how they…
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