Rawls Funeral Home

Charles Allen Rawls built more than one business on this corner. The first floor of 36 South Jackson held the funeral home's hearses and ambulances and, from 1943, Rawls' Pool Hall, with the dentist J. O. Clark's office upstairs; Kozy's Beauty Shoppe and Tea Room stood behind, and Rawls' Dry Cleaners was on East Jefferson. When the white-owned Ritz and Capitol theaters on the square sent Black patrons to the balconies, Rawls owned the Gem Theater on East Main. The present one-story brick funeral home dates from about 1985 and carries a Masonic emblem in its gable.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School — 3.7 mi
  The one-room Black school Tina Turner attended in Nutbush, moved to Brownsville in 2012 and opened as a museum in 2014 beside Sleepy John Estes's house.
• Alex Haley House Museum — 19 mi
  The 1919 bungalow in Henning where Alex Haley heard the family stories behind Roots, now a state historic site and museum with his grave in the front yard.

More markers nearby

• Golden Circle Life Insurance Company — steps away
• Elbert Williams — steps away
• The Brownsville Raids — steps away
• Fighting for Freedom (Haywood County African American Soldiers) — steps away