Blytheville Black Commercial Historic District

On Saturdays in Blytheville's segregated years, sharecropper families came to town and Ash Street filled so completely that people walked in the roadway. The Blytheville Social Arts Club and the Royal Brotherhood Club named an honorary Mayor of Ash Street each year, and the annual National Cotton Picking Contest was marked with a street dance. B.B. King played the nightclubs, the gospel choir Wings Over Jordan performed at the movie theaters, and a variety store on the street was listed in the Green Book in the 1960s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Herman Davis State Park — 15 mi
  A one-acre state park in Manila around the grave and memorial of Pvt. Herman Davis, a duck-hunting guide who became a scout and sharpshooter in the First World War and was fourth on Pershing's list of heroes.
• Hampson Archeological Museum State Park — 26 mi
  A free state museum on the town square in Wilson that holds the Nodena collection, one of the best Late Mississippian pottery collections known, from a palisaded village on the Mississippi occupied from A.D. 1400 to 1650.
• Johnny Cash Boyhood Home — 29 mi
  A restored five-room farmhouse in the Dyess Colony, the New Deal resettlement town where Johnny Cash grew up from 1935, with the colony's Administration Building as its museum.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi County Court House — 16 mi
• Reggie Young — 16 mi
• Caruthersville — 23 mi
• Fighting Near Etowah — 24 mi