Frank Crump, Jr.

Frank Crump Jr. was a Navy veteran who taught math at Rosa A. Temple High School and ran Crump Construction for nearly forty years. In the summer of 1964 he worked with the Council of Federated Organizations to register Black voters, helped coordinate the Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal newspaper, and was elected one of eight delegates to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party convention. In 1972 he stood with students expelled during a boycott, among them George Flaggs Jr., later the mayor. In 1987 he led another school boycott and founded the Community Action Network.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — 0.4 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.8 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 2.2 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.

More markers nearby

• Willie Dixon — steps away
• Dabney and Dabney — steps away
• Red Tops — 0.2 mi
• C.S.S. Arkansas — 0.3 mi