Jackson Street MB Church

E. J. Allen, a Black architect from Scranton, Pennsylvania, designed the Gothic Revival church, and longtime member Shirley Harris stresses that African Americans built it as well as drew it. The congregation first met at Golden Rule Hall, a Masonic lodge, and bought a lot for $1,000. Members say it hosted the first vacation Bible school for African American communities, and it later ran a Head Start program. The funeral scene in the film Mississippi Burning was shot inside. It was listed on the National Register in 2017.

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 — 1.3 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 — 1.7 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

• St. Mary's Catholic Church — steps away
• St. Mary's Catholic School — steps away
• Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister — steps away
• Newit Vick's Original Vicksburg — 0.3 mi