Kuhn Memorial Civil Rights Park

The park sits where Kuhn Memorial Hospital once stood. Vicksburg was a center of voter registration drives, freedom schools, and direct action during Freedom Summer in 1964. The Old Baptist Association nearby was bombed on October 4, 1964 for hosting civil rights meetings. This park honors the local civil rights trailblazers from that era and beyond—people who organized under threat, who taught when schools were closed to them, who registered voters in a city where power had been violently reclaimed by white supremacists in 1874 and 1875. The city's population is now majority African American. The park is part of Vicksburg's African American Heritage Tour, free and open to the public. Come to stand where a hospital once stood, now ground given to memory.