Draft:John Milton Brown

John Milton Brown was the elected sheriff of Coahoma County, Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. He was a Republican. White supremacists spurred by James L. Alcorn targeted him. He fled after a deadly confrontation in Friars Point between them and his defenders. He settled in Kansas??? where he worked in support of freedmen, farmed. and served in the military as commander of African American company.

He testified about discrimination and intimidation.

“ Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana, Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina, and George H. Pendleton of Ohio) and two Republican senators (William Windom of Minnesota and Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire), began to receive testimony on January 19, 1880.”

“John Wesley Cromwell, a lawyer, teacher, journalist, and publisher in Washington, D.C.; O.S.B. Wall, a lawyer, former Freedmen's Bureau agent, and colonel in the U.S. Army during the Civil War; Charles N. Otey, an editor, publisher, and teacher at Howard University; and Phillip Joseph, a journalist from Alabama. Other witnesses had served as some of the first black elected officials during Reconstruction, such as James O'Hara of North Carolina and James T. Rapier of Alabama, who had served as congressmen in the House of Representatives. George T. Ruby, a former teacher and Freedmen's Bureau agent served as a state senator in Texas before that state's "redemption." Similarly, William Murrell and John Henri Burch both served as elected officials in Louisiana until that state was also "redeemed" by former Confederates.” Exodus to Kansas