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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM268H_cofo-central-offices_Jackson-MS.html
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From this building, COFO (Council of Federated
Organizations) coordinated efforts of SNCC,
NAACP, CORE, SCLC, and other activist groups
from early 1963 through early 1965. Clarksdale's
Aaron Henry was COFO president. Bob Moses,
pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM266P_council-of-federated-organizations-cofo_Jackson-MS.html
Founded in 1961, COFO combined the Civil
Rights efforts of the Congress of Racial
Equality. NAACP, Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, and local groups
under one umbrella. COFO's grassroot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM266O_m-w-stringer-grand-lodge_Jackson-MS.html
Named in honor of Grand Master
Thomas W. Stringer, founder of Prince
Hall Masonry in Mississippi, who served
as Grand Master from 1867 to 1893.
Dedicated on May 30, 1955, with an
address given by civil rights activist
and future Suprem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22C8_bobby-rush_Jackson-MS.html
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Bobby Rush, a Louisiana native who lived for decades in Chicago, earned the title "king of the chitlin circuit" after relocating to Jackson in the early 1980s. Rush's distinctive "folk funk" style, featured on his record…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM229L_jackson-state-tragedy_Jackson-MS.html
Tragedy struck Jackson State College on May 15,
1970, when Jackson police and Mississippi
Highway Patrol officers suppressed student unrest
with intense gunfire. Phillip Lafayette Gibbs
and James Earl Green were killed and many
injured when b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P0X_scott-radio-service-company_Jackson-MS.html
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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/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/HM1CQO_the-gowdy-community_Jackson-MS.html
The Gowdy community was first settled prior to 1903. Named for Mr. W.B. Gowdy, former president of the Delta Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Plant. This African American community was awarded its own U.S. postal stop in 1915. The Gowdy community is loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYJ6_st-marks-episcopal-church_Jackson-MS.html
This church, organized in 1883, began as a Sunday School mission to blacks under the episcopate of Bishop Hugh M Thompson. The first instructor was a Mr. Williams, an African American. The Rev. Richard T Middleton became the first priest in 1904. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYJ3_noel-house_Jackson-MS.html
On this site was the house of Andrew J and Susie Davis Noel, built 1924. Active in the NAACP the Noels hosted Freedom Riders here in 1960. In 1948, Gladys Noel Bates filed the first lawsuit in the state seeking equal pay for black public school te…