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Farish Street Historical District, once the city’sBlack cultural and com- mercial center, is home toAce Records, Trumpet Records studio , the Alamo Theater, Farish Street Baptist Church, the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center and Birdland — the live music venue where Ellington, Hampton, Armstrong and other jazz legends per- formedwhen itwas known as theCrystal Palace Night Club. Tours are available at Malaco Records, a historic blues, R&B and gospel music company. The Summer Hotel earned its Mississippi Blues Trail marker for having housed the legendary Subway Lounge in its basement. Statue Medgar Evers Jackson’s Old Capitol Museum hous- es the nation’s first permanent civil rights exhibit. The city’s long list of African- Ameri-an heritage attractions continues with sites like Medgar Evers Home Museum, the Margaret Walker Alexander National African-American Research Center, Jackson State University and Tougaloo College, where the Boddie Mansion stands as one of the few homes in Jackson to survive the Civil War. Two other notable attractions show- case Jackson’s cultural diversity: Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience and the International Museum of Muslim Cultures. Several of the city’s main attrac- 48 Black Meetings & Tourism May/June 2011: www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com Photo Credit: Jackson CVB