First Baptist M.B. Church

First Baptist M.B. Church was founded in 1867 by freedmen and moved to this site about 1896. It played a vital role in the Civil Rights Movement in Port Gibson. Beginning in 1965, the NAACP held meetings here to promote boycotts of local white merchants, who subsequently filed suit. In a landmark ruling in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of the boycotts.

Port Gibson, Mississippi · United States