In "Mound Bayou, Miss. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a woman ahead of her t… Hamer, Fannie Lou 1917–1977
Blanche Kelso Bruce, a Republican senator from Mississippi, was the… Moses, Robert Parris 1935— Civil rights activist, public speaker It was at that convention that efforts to disenfranchise blacks were put in motion. Soon after the town was founded, he donated a track of land to be used to establish Mound Bayou Normal and Industrial Institute. He served for a time as the town’s mayor, and he later took more than a little pride in the fact that it elected its own public officials. Built in 1919 for Isaiah Thornton Montgomery, the only African-American delegate to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention, the house stands an important historical marker in the town of Mound Bayou. Montgomery spent most of 1863 in military service.
His father and another slave had already given him some training.In 1863, when he was just sixteen years old, Montgomery met Admiral David D. Porter, who commanded a Union naval operation that ran past Vicksburg.
When the Benjamin Montgomery and his sons William and Isaiah bought the two plantations in 1866 for $300,000 and apparently owned another as well. After Reconstruction, Montgomery was well-known and active in Bolivar County Republican circles, and his beloved Mound Bayou remained a faithful island of Republican loyalty in a sea of white Democrats.
In 1909, Montgomery joined his son-in-law, E. P. Booze, in founding the Farmers' Cooperative Mercantile Company in Mound Bayou. Six months later, Montgomery became ill from dysentery and Porter sent him to Cincinnati to join his family who lived there temporarily. "Isaiah T. Montgomery's Balancing Act." Helps develop Mound Bayou Oil Mill & Manufacturing Company 1924 Dies in Mound Bayou on March 6. Wells-Barnett, Ida B. The Mississippi Heritage Trust is working with the Knights and Daughters of Tabor to identify partners and resources to restore the Isaiah T. Montgomery House to become an educational center where people from around the world can join together to explore issues of race, equality and justice. Between 1911 and 1913, he helped to develop the Mound Bayou Oil Mill & Manufacturing Company. In his new role, Isaiah had full access to the Davis' fine library, and was able to study and to strengthen his education. He had also served as one of the black commissioners at the Atlanta Exposition held in 1895. The Montgomerys' residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; it is one of the nation's most historic black culture sites.To his credit, Montgomery had been involved in nearly every project of interest to the Mound Bayou area; he also worked diligently to promote black self-sufficiency and to enhance the quality of life, especially for those blacks who lived in Mound Bayou. Reprinted from "Takin' It to the Streets:" A Sixties Reader, 2003; also available online at www.hartfor… BLACK BELT, a crescent-shaped prairie named for its unusual black soil, extending mostly along the Alabama River in Alabama but also up the Tombigbee… Montgomery County Community College: Narrative DescriptionMontgomery County Community College: Distance Learning ProgramsMontgomery Community College: Narrative Description His father, Benjamin Thornton Montgomery, the plantation's business manager, was born in 1819 in Loudon County, Virginia. In 1887, he founded Mound Bayou. The lynching of blacks and racial uprisings seen throughout the state and elsewhere were not a part of that community.
Benjamin Montgomery was sold in 1837 to Joseph Davis, the older brother of Confederate president The Montgomerys lived above their retail store where the mother cared for the four children. Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1862–1931 Cleveland: Crossroads of Culture in the Mississippi Delta. Isaiah T. Montgomery. Isaiah T. Montgomery (May 21, 1847 – March 5, 1924) was the son of Ben Montgomery and his wife, and the founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black community.Soon elected mayor, he was an active Republican politician. To join the fight to save this National Historic Landmark, call the After Montgomery's death in 1924 the home was used for nursers, teachers, and a private residence.A Save America's Treasures grant was secured through the National Trust for Historic Preservation and matched by the Mississippi State Legislature and the African American Heritage Preservation Grant Program for exterior renovations totaling more than $110,000. Photo by Jennifer Baughn, MDAH Chief Architectural Historian. Over the subsequent decade, Isaiah T. Montgomery searched for another location in Mississippi to establish his all-black community.