Gold Coast

The Gold Coast shows how long the state failed to enforce its own law. In December 1936 Gov. Hugh White sent National Guard troops into a business on the Pearl. Liquor was seized, but a Rankin County chancellor dismissed the case, ruling the evidence illegally obtained and enforcement a local matter; the state Supreme Court later overruled him. A 1939 article in The American Mercury called the area's bootleggers a brazen clique that defied the law. One sheriff, beaten after a raid, waited out his term. Accounts differ on its end: sprawl, or the 1966 vote.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 1.3 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 — 1.3 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 1.9 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.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 4.7 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.

More markers nearby

• Hal & Mal's — 1.3 mi
• Temple Beth Israel — 1.3 mi
• First Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi
• Boyd House "The Oaks" — 1.5 mi