Isaiah Montgomery, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIsaiah Montgomery
American mayor
Date of Birth: 21-May-1847
Date of Death: 05-Mar-1924
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Isaiah 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.
- He participated in the 1890 Mississippi constitutional convention but was unable to prevent adoption of a state constitution that effectively disfranchised black voters for decades, using poll taxes and literacy tests to raise barriers to voter registration.
- Montgomery was thought to promote an accommodationist position for African Americans, which was sometimes thought of his colleague on race matters, Booker T.
- Washington, who became head of the Tuskegee Institute.
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