Willis E. Mollison

Willis Elbert Mollison (September 15, 1859 - 1924) was a teacher, newspaper editor, politician, banker, businessman, lawyer, public official, and civil rights advocate in Mississippi.[1][2]

Willis Elbert Mollison

Robert and Martha née Gibson Mollison were his parents.[1] He studied at Fisk University's college preparatory school and Oberlin College (class of 1883).[3][4] He wrote a book The leading Afro-Americans of Vicksburg, Miss., their enterprises, churches, schools, lodges and societies published in 1908 about prominent African Americans in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[5] His son Irvin C. Mollison also became a lawyer and served as president of the Cook County, Illinois Bar Association.[4]

He published The Golden Rule a four-page weekly newspaper in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[6] He moved to Chicago in 1917.

Irvin C. Mollison was his son.[4]

Further reading
  • Beacon Lights of the Race by Green Polonius Hamilton (1911)
  • Entry by Irvin C. Mollison, Journal of Negro History 15, no. 1 (1930)
  • Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844–1944 by J. Clay Smith Jr. (1993)

References
  1. "Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent". 1915.
  2. "Mollison, W. E. – MS Civil Rights Project".
  3. "W.E. Mollison, Vicksburg, Miss. and Scott Bond, Madison, Ark". Archived from the original on 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  4. "Mollison, W. E." Mississippi Encyclopedia.
  5. The leading Afro-Americans of Vicksburg, Miss., their enterprises, churches, schools, lodges and societies;. Library of Congress, Washington DC: Biographia publishing co. 1908.
  6. "The Golden Rule (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1898-19??". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
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