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Jackson (MS)
USA (MS)
City With Soul
Civil-rights history, blues heritage, and the home of Eudora Welty — Mississippi's capital is small but dense with American story.
Things to do
- Mississippi Civil Rights Museummust-see
Powerful museum on the state's central role in the civil rights movement.
2.5 hrs · $15 · culture - Mississippi Museum of Artrecommended
State's largest art museum and a strong Mississippi-artists collection.
1.5 hrs · $15 (free Sundays) · culture - Eudora Welty House and Gardenrecommended
Pulitzer winner's lifelong home, preserved as she left it.
1 hr · $10 · culture - Mississippi Sports Hall of Fameoptional
Honors Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, Brett Favre, and others — bigger than expected.
1.5 hrs · $8 · attraction - Big Apple Inn pig-ear sandwichmust-see
1939 lunch counter where civil-rights leaders met — a $2 pig-ear sandwich is iconic.
30 min · $5–10 · food