The Alamo Theatre

On Wednesday nights, young Jackson singers took the Alamo Theatre stage in talent contests. Dorothy Moore, a regular winner, later sang with the Poppies, whose 1966 record Lullaby of Love reached number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her breakthrough came with Malaco Records in 1976, when Misty Blue climbed to number 3 on the pop chart and number 2 on the rhythm and blues chart. In 2002 she started Farish Street Records, named to honor the district that raised her, and the Alamo's stage stands in that story.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — steps away
  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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.6 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.6 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.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 2.9 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.

More markers nearby

• Smith Robertson School — steps away
• Mt. Helm Baptist Church — 0.3 mi
• Ace Records — 0.3 mi
• Edwards Hotel — 0.3 mi