#Creditors

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Welcome to Nightvale Ep. 226: Creditors

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Elmore Bolling, he was too successful.

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them African like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

Elmore Bolling and his wife, Bertha Mae Nowden Bolling, in Alabama circa 1945.

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Single women headed households as independent widows, deserted wives, single mothers and spinsters, earning their own livings, often on the breadline in rural communities, but sometimes very successful in towns: especially in luxury goods and retail business, lending small amounts of money to familiar faces – trusted creditors.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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Stay tuned next for everything that’s already happened, but reversed. And as always. Good night, Night Vale. Good night.

Episode 226 - Creditors

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Beautiful Tom 🖤

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About a year and a half after my ex was murdered, I got a creditor calling for his debt.  We were not married (obviously), though we'd been together a decade before we parted friends.  Our finances had always been entirely separate and we had different last names.  She still tried to harass and threaten me.  I kept repeating that he was dead.  She was like “Oh yeah!  Prove it!”  I’m like “I don’t have a death certificate, why don’t you ask his family?  O better yet, why don’t you just google it, the murder made the national news.  It was pretty sensationalized because of the sexual element.”  She gave up at that point, but I’m still furious every time I think of it.

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Tom Burke in “Creditors” (2010)