African American Business District: Meridian Civil Rights Trail

Meridian Civil Rights Trail. The African-American Business District provided services that Meridian’s black community could not otherwise receive due to Jim Crow laws that kept the South segregated. It was the location of a hotel, restaurants, barber and beauty shops, a drugstore, a florist, a burial society and numerous other businesses. . This historical marker was erected in 2014 by the Meridian/Lauderdale County Tourism Bureau.. It is in Meridian in Lauderdale County Mississippi