Rosa A. Temple High School

Rosa A. Temple High School opened in 1959 to replace Bowman High School and took its name from a respected teacher who is buried in Beulah Cemetery. The new school was known across Mississippi for its academics and athletics, and Frank Crump Jr. taught math there. It closed when Vicksburg desegregated, with sources giving 1971, 1972 and 1973, and the building became Vicksburg Junior High. The road beside it, once Baldwin Ferry Road, now carries her name. An alumni committee researched the school and applied for the 2018 marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — 0.6 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 — 1.2 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 — 2.2 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

• Pemberton Headquarters (Willis-Cowan House) — 0.4 mi
• Balfour House — 0.5 mi
• Jackson Street MB Church — 0.5 mi
• St. Mary's Catholic Church — 0.6 mi