Honoring the Area's African-American Musicians & Legendary Music Venues

This marker was originally meant to be the trail's first, and it became the 28th. KEDM reported its unveiling for February 21, 2026, after Richwood's annual Black History Month Parade. The honorees include Odis Jackson, Mighty Sam McClain, Blind Joe Reynolds, Toussaint McCall, Earl Duke, Big Al Cherry, Ivory Joe Hunter and the Richwood High School Marching Band. Trail founder Doyle Jeter told the station, "This has been a long time coming." The Elite Lounge and the Members Club are among the venues named.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 3.4 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 4.7 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.5 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 5.6 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.

More markers nearby

• Mt. Nebo Elementary School — 2.1 mi
• Fort Miro — 3.9 mi
• Mr. Jack Hayes / Mrs. Ann Stapp Hayes — 3.9 mi
• Ouachita Parish High School — 3.9 mi