A group of 13 Montgomery County faith communities led by Westmoreland Congregational United Church will host a screening of The Three Lynchings on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, at 2 pm.
Co-sponsors include Macedonia Baptist Church, River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Bethesda Presbyterian Church, the Briggs Center for Faith and Action, Interwoven Congregations, Bethesda United Church of Christ, Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue, The Church in Bethesda, Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Temple Emanuel, and Kehila Chadasha.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion that includes historian Anthony Cohen, who appears in the film, and Jay Mallin, director of the documentary. The panel will be moderated by Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, which provided funding for the documentary.
Tickets for the screening are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-three-lynchings-film-viewing-and-discussion-tickets-136622939891
Participants will be asked to make an optional donation of $2 per person to a fund to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities of Maryland.
Three African American men were lynched by Montgomery County mobs in the late 1800s: Mr. George Peck and Mr. John Diggs or Dorsey in 1880, and Mr. Sidney Randolph 16 years later. The incidents were reported in news accounts that conflict in many details, but which nevertheless were published nationwide. Although many of the accounts depicted these incidents as the work of relatively small groups of local citizens, the aftermaths made plain that almost no white person of authority in the county — not its prosecutors, jurors, elected officials, journalists or preachers — seriously objected to the public murder of the three African American men.
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