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HARTMAN TURNBOW, the first black man to attempt to register to vote in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1963. He was leader of a group of independent farmers in the community of Mileston, near Tchula, in Holmes County, Mississippi. The Mileston 14.

Lexington is the county seat of Holmes County.

References:

Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission By Jenny Irons, page 103 The firebombing of Turnbow's home.

Bury My Heart in Birmingham, the Lamar Weaver Story: Warriors of the Civil ... By Lamar Weaver, Rueben Jackson, page 781    The firebombing of Turnbow's home

By Akinyele Omowale Umoja, pages 73-76, 101-106. All about Hartman Turnbow
 * We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

recorded personal interview of Hartman Turnbow about firebombing of his house on May 7, 1964.
 * http://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15990coll1/id/241

http://cdm15990.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15990coll1/id/241/show/238

recorded personal interview of Hartman Turnbow about trying to "reddish" to vote. He was 48 years old. He had been married to "Sweets" for just 4 years.