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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P0X_scott-radio-service-company_Jackson-MS.html
Front Scott Radio Service Company, located at 128 North Gallatin Street, just north of this site, was one of the first businesses in Mississippi to offer professional recording technology. The Jackson-based Trumpet record label used the Scott s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OOV_capitol-rally_Jackson-MS.html
Front On June 26, 1966, James Meredith's "March Against Fear" — led by Stokely Carmichael. Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, and others after Meredith was shot and wounded — ended its three-week trek from Memphis with a rall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N12_osburn-stand_Jackson-MS.html
To improve communication to the Old Southwest, the Natchez Trace was declared a post road in 1800. Afterwards, with Choctaw permission, improvements to this section of the Old Trace began. In 1805, the Choctaw allowed inns, known as stands, to be …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JUG_greyhound-bus-station_Jackson-MS.html
(front) On May 28, 1961, a Greyhound bus with nine Freedom Riders aboard arrived here, the third group of Riders into Jackson. The first two came on Trailways buses May 24, That summer 329 people were arrested in Jackson for integrating public tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JRZ_otis-spann-little-johnnie-jones_Jackson-MS.html
~ Front Side ~ Otis Spann and Little Johnnie Jones, two of the acknowledged masters of Chicago blues piano, were cousins who lived in Jackson in the 1930s and '40s. On the vibrant post-World War II Chicago scene they both played with blues king M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQD_pocahontas-mounds_Jackson-MS.html
Built and used between A.D 1000 and 1300, this platform mound and a nearby burial mound mark the ceremonial and political seat of a regional chiefdom of the Plaquemine culture. A thatched, clay-plastered ritual temple or chief's lodging stood atop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DO3_mfwc-headquarters_Jackson-MS.html
The Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1898 in Kosciusko, moved into this headquarters building in 1936. Designed by architect Robert Naef and built by the Works Projects Administration, the structure is of the Georgian-Revival …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DA6_cassandra-wilson_Jackson-MS.html
~Front~Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson, a native of Jackson, is known for her broad explorations of various forms of music, including the blues. Her recordings include versions of songs by Delta blues artists Robert Johnson, So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU6_summers-hotel-subway-lounge_Jackson-MS.html
During the era of segregation, traveling African Americans had few options for lodging. In Jackson, many black musicians stayed at the Summers Hotel, established in 1944 by W.J. Summers. In 1966 Summers opened a club in the hotel basement that he …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU5_ishmon-bracey_Jackson-MS.html
~Front~One of the earliest blues musicians from Mississippi to make recordings, Ishmon Bracey (1899-1970) is buried in the nearby Willow Park Cemetery. In the 1920s and '30s Bracey was a leading bluesman in the Jackson area and performed with prom…
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