Ruby's Nite Spot

Ruby Edwards's story did not end in Leland. In the mid-1950s she took over Club Ebony in Indianola, and by 1958 she was its full owner. Accounts say after-hours parties and bootlegging with a partner, James B. Lee, helped pay for the big-name acts there. Back in Leland her son Terry Keesee ran Ruby's Nite Spot for a time. Edwards later ran a family grocery, retired in the 1970s, and died on January 1, 2001.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 9.6 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 11 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 15 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 17 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.

More markers nearby

• Tyrone Davis — steps away
• Son Thomas — 0.2 mi
• Johnny Winter — 0.3 mi
• Birthplace of Kermit the Frog — 0.3 mi