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Christopher Pike, Jackson Redevelopment Authority’s new executive director, poses for photo standing in the middle of Farish Street in downtown Jackson on Monday, June 3.
The Jackson Redevelopment Authority and 2 Degrees Mississippi have partnered with the U.S. Forestry Service to secure $1.5 million in funds that will go toward green spaces on Farish Street in ...
March 13, 1980. Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is a historic district and neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, known as a hub for Black -owned businesses up until the 1970s. Named after a family that lived and had businesses on that street for four generations, [2] the street became a flourishing business area after the ...
Farish Street Records. Moore started the record label Farish Street Records in 2002. The label is named to honor Farish Street, the home to live and juke blues music in the neighborhood where Dorothy was raised. Moore's albums Please Come Home For Christmas, Gittin' Down Live, I'm Doing Alright and Blues Heart were released on the label.
H. C. Speir. Henry Columbus Speir (October 6, 1895 – April 22, 1972) [1] was an American "talent broker" and record store owner from Jackson, Mississippi. He was responsible for launching the recording careers of most of the greatest Mississippi blues musicians in the 1920s and 1930s. According to blues researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow, "Speir ...
Mississippi John Hurt. John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 [1] [nb 1] – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. [3] Hurt was raised in Avalon, Mississippi and taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. He worked as a sharecropper and began playing at dances ...
Political party. Democratic. Movement. Civil Rights Movement, Peace movement. Allen Johnson was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, an activist in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and he was also a minister of religion. Johnson is the grandfather of Georgetown law professor Vida Johnson .
Trumpet was located on Farish Street, the black district of Jackson, and recorded R&B, gospel and blues artists including Little Milton, Wynonie Harris, Willie Love, and James Waller. Arthur Crudup recorded at the label under the name Elmer James. In 1952, James's song "Dust My Broom" appeared on Billboard's R&B chart at No. 9.