Mont Howell

{{Short description|American businessman (1866–1944)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Mont Howell | other_names = G. M. Howell | birth_name = George Montgomery Howell | birth_date = 1866 | death_date = 1944 | burial_place = South-View Cemetery | education = Atlanta University }}

'''George Montgomery "Mont" Howell Sr.''' (1866 – 1944),<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 1, 1944 |title=Obituary for George Mont Howell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-obituary-for-ge/191030781/ |access-date=2026-02-10 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 12, 1952 |title=Obituary for George Mont Howell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-obituary-for-ge/191029455/ |access-date=2026-02-10 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |pages=19 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> commonly known as '''Mont Howell''',<ref name="Burns-2011">{{Cite book |last=Burns |first=Rebecca |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rage_in_the_Gate_City/hhCREQAAQBAJ |title=Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot |date=August 15, 2011 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-8042-1 |pages=34–35 |language=en}}</ref> was an African American businessman in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref name="Smith-2026">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Robert Neil |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Evil_Day_in_Georgia/PqOTEQAAQBAJ |title=An Evil Day in Georgia: The Killing of Coleman Osborn and the Death Penalty in the Progressive-Era South |date=October 25, 2026 |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=979-8-89527-123-0 |language=en |chapter=The Howell–Petty Incidents}}</ref> He was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 14, 1905 |title=Article clipped from The New York Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-age/9499051/ |access-date=2026-02-10 |work=The New York Age |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Officers and members of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League. |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/10210160-c6ba-012f-736e-3c075448cc4b |access-date=2026-02-10 |website=Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |publisher=The New York Public Library}}</ref> Howell and his brother Edward operated a shoe store and manufacturer in Atlanta called the "People's Shoe Store".<ref name="Burns-2011" />

Howell was a witness to the 1906 Atlanta race massacre;<ref name="Burns-2011" /> and testified as a witness in the 1928 murder trial of Coleman Osborn, a store owner in Chatsworth, Georgia.<ref name="Smith-2026" /><ref>"New 'Confession' Quickly Refuted by Eula Thompson". ''The Atlanta Journal''. August 28, 1928. p. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal/191029721/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal-eula-refutes-her-new/191029632/ 13]. Retrieved 2026-02-10 – via Newspapers.com.</ref> He attended Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University).<ref name="Burns-2011" />

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