Alpha Kappa Alpha National Presidents

Two of Alpha Kappa Alpha's national presidents came from Vicksburg, the only Mississippians to lead the sorority. B. Beatrix Scott, fifth president, in the 1920s, founded its Vocational Guidance Project. Ida L. Jackson, eighth, in the 1930s, conceived the Mississippi Health Project, which brought immunizations and clinics to sharecroppers in Holmes and then Bolivar counties. Thirteen of fourteen Holmes County planters refused to let tenants attend, calling the clinics communist agitation, so the women ran the nation's first mobile health clinic. It reached about fifteen thousand people before gas rationing ended it in 1941.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — 1.3 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 2.1 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 3.0 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.

More markers nearby

• Bowmar Avenue Elementary School — steps away
• Magnolia High School — 0.4 mi
• Marcus Bottom — 0.4 mi
• Frank Crump, Jr. — 0.9 mi