Killing of Estella Montgomery in Mississippi in 1939
Incident
Estella Montgomery, 53, a businesswoman and a civic and political leader, was killed in 1939 by police officers Fred Connor and Clayton Dempsey in Bolivar County, Mississippi. Connor and Dempsey came to arrest Montgomery at the residence of E. P. Booze, her brother-in-law. The officers fired nine shots at Montgomery, claiming she resisted arrest and attacked them with a knife. Montgomery was the daughter of Isaiah Montgomery, founder of the all-Black town Mound Bayou, and the sister of the Republican national committeewoman. An essay on this case, researched and authored by a CRRJ student, is available on request.
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