SUBSIDIZED

A sign on a brick wall in Mound Bayou reads MOUND BAYOU FOUNDATION. The federal caption filed with its photograph credited the town to a railroad company. A National Register nomination prepared in 1975 calls Isaiah Montgomery and Benjamin Green co-founders.

A government photograph of an all-Black town, and the sentence filed underneath it that hands the founding to a railroad

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Corrected 2026-10-02. The casefile quoted a scanner's error ("Resan") as the Journal's printed "Regan." It said Montgomery's motion failed and was his one recorded motion; the Convention adopted a no-debate referral rule the same day, and the Journal prints a railroad-tax memorial he presented. It made the 1975 nomination say the grant followed from the railroad's belief about the climate, left out the nomination's own credit to the railroad, said the two railroads disagreed, and called the nomination's named preparer an arm of the government. It said the town painted the wall at its own expense, which no source shows, claimed nobody puts the railroad's reasoning on a plaque, and named a book no catalog confirms. It left out that Montgomery was the railroad's commissioned land agent, and it set the caption and the nomination against each other more evenly than they stand; the argument is narrowed to what the records show. Published 2026-09-22.

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