Ellis D. Howard Testified There Were Separate Voting Machine in St. Helena Parish

The Time-Picayune
Wed, September 28, 1960

Who was Ellis Dught  Howard? Ellis was a farmer in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. He was married to Bernice Howard. The was born in 1915 to  Charlie and Mandy Taylor Howard. Ellis wasn't afraid to stand up in the face of voting injustice in St. Helena Parish. He testified:" Negroes in my percent lined up at one door and white at another. Whites march to one machine and Negroes to another."

Ellis died in St. Helena Parish on April 17, 2004.  Ellis is buried in Turner Chapel Cemetery in Greensburg, Louisiana. He was a member of the Masonic Temple.