Lucie E. Campbell

Lucie Campbell, the daughter of freed people, was born in Duck Hill in 1885 in a train caboose; her father died in a railroad accident before she was two, and her mother took nine children to Memphis. She graduated as valedictorian at fourteen and became a teacher. Her first hymn, Something Within, came in 1919 after a blind musician on Beale Street refused requests to play W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues. As a National Baptist music director she led thousand-voice choirs, and some churches barred her from speaking because she was a woman.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 10 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.
• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — 12 mi
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 15 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Holly Springs National Forest — 25 mi
  A patchwork national forest of about 155,000 acres in the north Mississippi hills, assembled in the 1930s from worn-out cotton fields and replanted in pine by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• Lynching of Bootjack and Red — steps away
• 87th Infantry Division — 4.5 mi
• Camp McCain — 4.8 mi
• Magic Sam — 9.7 mi