Northern Women

The black women were Etta Moten Barnett and Arnetta Wallace. Barnett was a very famous actress (she had played Bess in Porgy and Bess) and singer and her husband was a powerful journalist named Claude Barnett. Arnetta Wallace was a social activist who was a past president of Alpha Kappa Alpha and a board member of the National Council of Negro Women.

The white women were Henrietta Moore, Narcissa King, Sylvia Weinberg, Lucy Montgomery, Jean Davis, and Miriam Davis. All were politically active, many with the League of Women Voters. Henny Moore and Jean Davis had children who had joined Freedom Summer and were already working in Mississippi. Miriam Davis was the wife of a minister – as was Arnetta Wallace. Charles Davis was a lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery an industrialist; Narcissa King heir to the Swift meat packing fortune. Sylvia Weinberg contacted Jackson’s only Rabbi.

	Mrs. P. W. Moore, Jr. (Henrietta)			Mrs. Kenneth Montgomery (Lucy)
	Mrs. Etta Moten Barnett			Mrs. Robert C. Wallace (Arnetta)
	Mrs. Clinton King			Mrs. Newell Davis (Miriam)
	Mrs. Lewis Weinberg (Sylvia)			Mrs. Charles Davis (Jean)

Polly Cowan listed all the members of the 1964 Chicago Team in her notebook.