Original brick walls are exposed behind cement veneer, and rusty jail doors stand ajar. Picture taken as the jail is being refurbished in 1984. Located on Fulton Street.
Floor joists for the second floor can been seen above the rusty metal staircase. Picture taken as the jail is being refurbished in 1984. Located on Fulton Street.
Shot from the first floor, looking across the staircase to more rusty doors and barred windows on the second level. Picture taken as the jail is being refurbished in 1984. Located on Fulton Street.
Small log cabin with door and window sitting on short brick column foundation, and a rusty tin roof. Found between the walls of a house on Fulton Street, but relocated to the grounds of the Historical Society Museum.
From the Adam Daniel Beittel Papers. Typewritten memo from Martin Luther King, Jr., and nine others inviting American religious leaders to attend the Mission to Mississippi Conference at Tougaloo College on July 20, 1961. The purpose is...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Four-page handwritten letter signed Mr. and Mrs. Judge Rankin to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart dated August 12, 1967. Rankin writes about the killing by a white man of an African American man who had voted for an...
