Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

and neighborhood in

Jackson, Mississippi Jackson is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Mississippi, most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city sits on the Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana), Pearl River and is locate ...

, known as a hub for

Black Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without chroma, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness.Eva Heller, ''P ...

-owned businesses up until the 1970s. Named after a family that lived and had businesses on that street for four generations, the street became a flourishing business area after the imposition of legal segregation under

Jim Crow The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, " Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. The last of the ...

History

By 1908 one third of the area of Jackson was black-owned, one third of the houses where blacks lived were black-owned, and half of black families owned their own homes.

Sidney Dillon Redmond Sidney Dillon Redmond (October 11, 1871 – February 11, 1948) was an American civic leader, physician, lawyer, and politician from Jackson, Mississippi. He was an important African American community leader and headed the Mississippi Republican ...

(1871–1948) reportedly owned some 300 rental homes in the Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District in Jackson. In 1915 the Farish Street neighborhood was well known as a progressive area in Jackson; and Farish Street was home to

Trumpet Records Trumpet Records was an American record company founded by Lillian McMurry in Jackson, Mississippi in 1951. Although it existed for only four years, it was influential. History The goal of Trumpet Records was to record musicians from the Mississi ...

, Ace Records, and Speir Phonograph Company.

Jackson State University Jackson State University (Jackson State or JSU) is a Public university, public Historically Black colleges and universities, historically black research university in Jackson, Mississippi. It is a member of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and ...

, a

historically Black university Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African Americans. Most are in the Southern U ...

, was located at the corner of Farish and Griffith for about a year until it moved to its new location. Jessie Lee Garner was a resident of the neighborhood. The Farish Street neighborhood was added as a historic district to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1980. The neighborhood is historically significant as an economically independent black community, and as of 1980 was the largest such community in Mississippi. Most of the properties in the district were built between 1890 and 1930. A plan to renovate shotgun style homes for low income housing was initiated during the 1990s.

References

External links

African-American history of Mississippi Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi Streets in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Jackson, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub