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Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,533 at the 2010 census , [2] down from 2,102 in 2000. It was founded as an independent black community in 1887 by former slaves led by Isaiah Montgomery .
The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till's mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men who lynched her son in 1955.
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (May 21, 1847 – March 5, 1924) was founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black community. A Republican, he was a delegate to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and served as mayor of Mound Bayou. He participated in the 1890 Mississippi constitutional convention as a delegate from Bolivar County and ...
The I.T. Montgomery House is located in an residential area south of the Mound Bayou town center, on the west side of South Main Avenue midway between Green Street West and West South Street. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof and an elevated brick foundation. It has a single-story porch extending across its front, with a hip ...
Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi opened in 1942 [2] to great fanfare by the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Everyone on the staff, including doctors and nurses, were black. The facilities included two major operating rooms, an x-ray machine, incubators, electrocardiograph, blood bank, and laboratory.
In a similar vein, he said, 'There is not a thing wrong with Mississippi today that real Jeffersonian democracy and the religion of Jesus Christ cannot solve'." [2] His medical and political endeavors exposed him to the generational poverty among the black community in Mound Bayou, Mississippi , leading him to give public support for the ...
The Mound Bayou Public School District was a public school district with its headquarters in Mound Bayou, Mississippi ( USA ). In addition to Mound Bayou, the district also served the town of Winstonville. [1] On July 1, 2014 consolidated with the North Bolivar School District in Shelby, Mississippi to form the North Bolivar Consolidated School ...