JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Ada Miller-Robinson is sitting in a pew at Farish Street Baptist Church, the same church where her mother cooked meals for Freedom Riders. The same church where she taught Freedom School upstairs as a teenager. The same church where history has been made for 133 years.
“I didn’t really know the impact, you know, how important it was, what I did,” Robinson said, 67 years later. “But actually, I just was obedient.”
Farish Street Baptist Church sits on the corner of Farish and Church Streets in what was once known as Jackson’s Black Wall Street. In the 1950s and ’60s, this neighborhood thrived with Black-owned businesses, medical offices, and cultural institutions that served a community shut out of white establishments by Jim Crow segregation…