Isaiah Montgomery
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Isaiah Montgomery (May 21, 1847 - March 5, 1924) was a former slave, the son of Ben Montgomery, and the founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
Born into slavery, Isaiah was afforded an education due to his father's relatively influential position on the Davis Bend plantation. Following the end of the American Civil War, he began a business with his father, until Ben Montgomery's death in 1877.
Ben Montgomery had long dreamed of establishing a colony for freed African American slaves, and after his father's death Isaiah worked to make that dream come true. The result of his labor was the foundation of Mound Bayou, in 1887.
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