Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church

Charles Betts Galloway, whom this church memorializes, was named a bishop at thirty-seven in 1886 and nicknamed the Boy Bishop. He urged Jackson's Methodists to finish a new building in 1883, debated Jefferson Davis in the press in 1887 over alcohol sales, and was crucial to founding Millsaps College. His record on race was divided: he opposed James K. Vardaman's cuts to Black schools and condemned lynching, yet he supported segregation, white control of politics and the Lost Cause.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Capitol Museum — 0.2 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.3 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Farish Street Historic District — 0.4 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.3 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• First Presbyterian Church — steps away
• Greenwood Cemetery — 0.3 mi
• Mount Helm Baptist Church - Original Site — 0.3 mi
• Hal & Mal's — 0.4 mi