On July 12, 1887 the city of Mound Bayou MS was founded by former slave, Isaiah T. Montgomery, and his cousin, Benjamin Green. Mound Bayou is situated between Vicksburg, MS and Memphis,TN off Highway 61. Mound Bayou is 128 years old and it remains to be the oldest bastion of the black municipal government of the south. It was the first city to be established and governed by African Americans. As a result of its success, Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth President of the United States, called Mound Bayou “the Jewel of the Delta”. The treasured nickname has remained until present day. The land of Mound Bayou became a land of promise for African Americans. In that “promise” was self-help, racial pride, economic opportunity, and social …show more content…
The latter started in the 1820s by the planter Joseph E. Davis, who intended to create a model slave community on his plantation. The slaves turned Mound Bayou from nothing into something. That is what made Mound Bayou popular and put it on the map. There were many people that came from all over the map to Mound Bayou. The newly founded town established itself as the section of the Mississippi Delta with “premium cotton.” For many years, all the planters in the surrounding areas would ship their cotton from Mound Bayou station, because it yielded higher prices on the market. Its economy depended primarily on the production of cotton, but also timber, corn, and being a prominent agent for the LNO & T Railroad. By 1900, two-thirds of the owners of the land in the bottomlands were black farmers. With their high debt and continuing agricultural problems, most of them lost their land. As cotton prices fell, the town suffered a severe economic decline in the 1920s and …show more content…
It’s a short document about Mound Bayou and It’s historical story. The Taborian Hospital is the model for health management organizations all around the world. Before Taborian Hospital was built, Blacks were not treated in the local emergency room. Instead, they were served in the boiler room. I first heard about from a video that I watched. The video that I watched was talking about how the blacks had to go into the Boiler Room and some of them passed away because the doctors wasn’t using clean objects. It is also believed that the Civil Rights Movement started in Mound Bayou, but they did not get historical credit. Dr. T.R.M. Howard, who was also over the hospital at the time started the movement with bumper stickers telling blacks “Don’t Buy Gas Where You Can’t Use The Bathroom.”Howard received assistance from Medgar Evers, who had recently moved to Mound Bayou and worked as an insurance salesman in Howard’s company. In fact, it was Dr. Howard who introduced Evers to the Civil Rights