Black History in Mississippi

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

This Hattiesburg museum honors Black Americans who have served in the military, highlighting homegrown heroes.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.