Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory

Mallory arrived in Lexington in 1926 and used a church school as a platform in the national movement for racial uplift. Her Jubilee Harmonizers, a girls' choir, toured the country raising money and clothing for students and sharecropping families. The school hosted a rural teachers' summer school in 1934 and, in 1935, the sorority-run Mississippi Health Project, with free medical care for poor Delta women and children. She was a vice president of the National Council of Negro Women, and in 1968 became the first woman and first African American elected to the Holmes County Board of Education.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 27 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.

More markers nearby

• St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi
• PFC Milton Lee Olive III — 0.6 mi
• Holmes County Blues — 0.8 mi
• Hazel Brannon Smith — 0.9 mi