Club Ebony

Club Ebony began in 1943 as the Jones Night Spot, opened by Johnny Jones so people could work off a week in the fields. Its recessed lighting gave the dance floor an orange glow, an idea Jones borrowed from a club in France. Local legend says it became Club Ebony around 1950, when Ruby Edwards, B.B. King's former mother-in-law, rented it. Edwards later bought the building and ran it until 1974. In April 2009 King himself bought the club, one of the oldest juke joints in the Delta.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — steps away
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Dockery Farms — 20 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 21 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Winterville Mounds — 24 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.

More markers nearby

• Irene Magruder — 0.2 mi
• Albert King — 0.3 mi
• Giles Penny Savers Store — 0.4 mi
• Freedom School Bombing — 0.4 mi