Motor Mouse Motorcycle Club

With more than five decades of riding together throughout the Mississippi Delta, the Motor Mouse Motorcycle Club is an institution that supports charitable work and fellowship among its 70 members. They focus on doing good for the community by giving out scholarships, donating to charities, and helping burn patients and cancer survivors. They also support schools and provide clothes and toys for children during the holidays, feed the public for Thanksgiving, and offer free motorcycle escorts for funerals.

The club was founded in 1972 by Johnny Mack Robinson, who also served as the first president. He came up with the “Motor Mouse” name after he saw a cartoon of a mouse riding a motorcycle. Today, David L. Hull is the acting president of the motorcycle club and vice president of the Mississippi Motorcycle Association. Although riding motorcycles is the central activity of the club, members like Renee Mitchell cite togetherness as its main appeal: “Everybody thinks that [in] a motorcycle group, you have to ride a motorcycle, but you don’t. You don’t have to ride a motorcycle. It’s just basically being in a sister and brotherhood. That’s it.”

For the last ten years, Motor Mouse Motorcycle has been housed in the historic White Rose Café building in Indianola, Mississippi. The White Rose Café opened in 1947; during the civil rights movement, it was a safe gathering space for activists. By gathering at the old café, Motor Mouse Motorcycle Club carries on this legacy of community and mutual support, a core principle for the club since its start over 50 years ago.