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Madison County’s Historic African Americans

In Madison County there’s a place called “Negro Mountain.” No blacks live there now, but it was, in the 1860s, settled by Ozark African Americans. All of them and their descendants are gone now—except for one individual. We take you to meet the last living African American resident of Madison County

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.