Queen of Hearts

Johnny Temple was born in Canton and raised around Jackson, where he befriended Skip James. By the early 1930s he was in Chicago playing clubs with Joe McCoy, and his 1936 Decca record Louise Louise Blues was a hit, backed by the Harlem Hamfats. After the war he helped musicians arriving from the South find their footing, then came back to Mississippi in the mid-1950s. The trail's account places him in the house behind the Queen of Hearts in the 1960s. He gave up the blues to become a minister and died in Jackson in November 1968.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 1.3 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 1.6 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 2.1 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 — 2.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Hawkins Field Terminal — 0.8 mi
• Cassandra Wilson — 1.1 mi
• Millsaps College — 1.3 mi
• Manship House — 1.5 mi