Mississippi City Colored School

The school opened in 1914 to teach Black children through the eighth grade, in a town that had been Harrison County's seat until 1902 and was annexed by Gulfport in 1965. At the 2021 unveiling, former student Patricia Harvey said every family gathered there either attended the school or sent children to it. In a county where every school was segregated, it was the community's own. It closed in 1960 and was later demolished. The ground is now a playground at Silver Ridge Park, open to any child, and the marker stands there.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 7.9 mi
  The beachfront parking lot beside the Biloxi Lighthouse where state markers recall the 1959 and 1960 wade-ins that opened Mississippi's public beaches to Black residents.
• Biloxi Lighthouse — 7.9 mi
  A cast-iron tower lit in 1848 on the Biloxi beachfront, kept by women for most of its first century and still in service after Camille and Katrina.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 9.6 mi
  Frank Gehry's pavilions on the Biloxi waterfront, built around the pottery of George Ohr, the self-styled Mad Potter, and the rebuilt Pleasant Reed House.
• Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — 10 mi
  A Point Cadet museum on Biloxi's oyster, shrimp and schooner past, from the packing houses and the shrimpers' unions to the Vietnamese families who rebuilt the industry.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi City Courthouse — 0.8 mi
• Gulf Coast Military Academy — 1.0 mi
• Mississippi City Cemetery — 1.1 mi
• Centennial Plaza — 1.3 mi