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The Greyhound Bus Station at 219 N. Lamar St., Jackson, Mississippi, was the site of many arrests during the May 1961 Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement. The Art Deco building has been preserved and currently functions as an architect's office.
In the 1930s, the Greyhound Lines bus company built many bus stations in the then-popular Streamline Moderne style. William Nowland Van Powell designed at least four of them. Working with George Mahan, Jr. in 1939, he was the architect of the Greyhound Bus Station in Jackson, Mississippi. [4]
English: A front view of the Greyhound Bus Station, located at 219 N. Lamar St., Jackson Mississippi. Monocrome source photo was taken December 22, 1939. Cropped and contrast-enhanced from an archival photo in the collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and already placed in the Wikimedia Commons at "Greyhound_Bus_Station,_December_22,_1939._(8758711973).jpg"
The bus reached the Trailways station in Anniston about one hour after the Greyhound bus had arrived in the city. While the bus driver, John Olan Patterson, spoke to some police officers, the Riders nervously bought some sandwiches from the whites-only lunch counter. They were served, although the other whites in the waiting room averted their ...
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Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Jackson, Mississippi" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list of museums in Mississippi encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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