Rosa Scott School

Rosa Scott was born in 1874, studied at Fisk University and became a teacher and principal in Madison County. She led an effort to raise money for a school for Black children that opened in Madison in the 1920s, when Mississippi was deeply segregated. She died in 1938, and her grave is now part of the courtyard of the campus that bears her name; a new school was named for her in 1959. In 2021 her descendants visited, students designed a flag, and the family gave the school a biography written by her granddaughter, Rose Mary Collum Gaylor.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 2.5 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 4.5 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 9.8 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• Madison — 0.3 mi
• Montgomery House — 0.4 mi
• John Curran House — 0.5 mi
• Farr Mercantile Company — 0.6 mi