Ebenezer is an unincorporated community located in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States.

The community built Temple Beth El in Lexington in 1905; it closed in 2009 because of declining population.

Even after the state legislature disfranchised most blacks through provisions of the 1890 constitution, Howard continued to be active as a member of the Republican Party.

Appointed as an aide in the office of the United States Attorney General in the administration of President Warren G. Harding, Howard was the highest-ranking African American in government at the time.

In 1992 he was elected Speaker Pro Tempore of the Mississippi House of Representatives and he continued to serve in that position until retired in 2003.