Isaiah Montgomery (May 21, 1847 – March 5, 1924) was the son of Ben Montgomery, and the founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Soon elected mayor, he was an active politician, participating in the 1890 Mississippi state constitutional convention which disfranchised black voters. He was seen as promoting an accommodationist position, a position which would soon be shared by another former slave and eventual black leader Booker T. Washington.
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“Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 22:13.
Almost the same words are found in 1 Corinthians 15:32.
“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A day’s march nearer home.”
—James Montgomery (1771–1854)