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Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District. / 32.30389°N 90.18861°W / 32.30389; -90.18861. 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 ...
Freddie Waits. Walter Ward (singer) Carl Weathersby. The Weeks (band) Carson Whitsett. Tim Whitsett. The Williams Brothers (gospel group) Cassandra Wilson. Nanette Workman.
November 7, 1976 [2] Designated USMS. November 14, 1990 [1] The King Edward Hotel, built in 1923 as the Edwards Hotel, is an historic hotel in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. The second of two buildings located on the site at the corner of Capitol and Mill Streets, it was closed and vacant for nearly 40 years before renovations began in 2006.
Mississippi College. / 32.33583°N 90.33139°W / 32.33583; -90.33139. Mississippi College ( MC) is a private Baptist university in Clinton, Mississippi. [8] Founded in 1826, MC is the second-oldest Baptist -affiliated college or university in the United States and the oldest college or university in Mississippi .
Saint Thomas - Midtown Hospital. / 36.15389°N 86.80250°W / 36.15389; -86.80250. Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown, formerly known as Baptist Hospital, [1] is a non-profit community hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and the largest such hospital in Middle Tennessee. It is licensed for 683 acute and rehab care beds.
Joseph Harrison Jackson (January 11, 1900 [1] – August 18, 1990) was an American pastor and the longest serving President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was highly controversial in many black churches, where the minister preached spiritual salvation rather than political activism.
Dr. Jackson was ordained on September 2, 1913. First Baptist Church, Jefferson, Texas, 1917–18. County Avenue Baptist Church, Texarkana, 1918-34 (four years on leave of absence for school studies at Princeton and Chicago)*Organized and pastored Central Baptist Church, Texarkana, 1934–40. Parkview Baptist Church, Laurel, Mississippi in 1940.
Union Station (Jackson, Mississippi) / 32.30111°N 90.19111°W / 32.30111; -90.19111. Union Station is an intermodal transit station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is operated by the Jackson Transit System and serves Amtrak 's City of New Orleans rail line, Greyhound Lines intercity buses, and is Jackson's main city bus ...