Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson trained as a classical pianist, studied mass communications at Jackson State University and then moved to New York to sing. She made her first album under her own name in 1986. DownBeat named her top female jazz singer several times in the 1990s, but her records roam: she won Grammy Awards in 1996 for New Moon Daughter and in 2009 for Loverly, and in 1999 she released a salute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles. Her Blues Trail marker, unveiled on January 7, 2010, stands outside a Jackson middle school, in her hometown.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 0.6 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 2.7 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 3.1 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 3.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Hawkins Field Terminal — 1.1 mi
• Queen of Hearts — 1.1 mi
• Malaco Records — 1.6 mi
• Millsaps College — 1.9 mi