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Marshall's Music and Bookstore – 38 years of commitment

The hustle and bustle at Marshall's Music and is a wondrous sight. Endless customers, deliveries and phones ringing nonstop keep owner Maati Primm on her toes. And she handles all of it herself.

Marshall's is one of the oldest Black-owned bookstores in the country, and with the exception of the original founder, Greater Pearlie Grove Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Louis Wilcher, the business has been owned and operated on Farish Street in by Primm's female members since 1938. Until the early 1970s, Farish Street was the epicenter of Black businesses in Jackson.

“When I was a little girl, I'd in here and play bookstore,” Primm says with a smile at the memory. “This was my Disney.”

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The bookstore offers a variety of books and music promoting Black history and excellence. It is a sanctuary for those who want to learn history and continue to learn.

“And maybe find out what they didn't know, what they weren't taught in school,” Primm said. “It can be an eye-opening, mind-blowing experience.”

An entire wall in the store is dedicated to notable who have reached various levels of fame via books they've authored, television shows they've hosted, activism they've led or movies they've starred in.

Primm even plays of historical for customers, sharing snippets of history from Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream” speech to Little Richard schooling Arsenio Hall's audience on their rights as living, breathing human beings.

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“My great grandmother was enslaved. When she freed herself, she started a church, school and burial grounds. She was an educator too. To this day, the church and burial grounds still remain,” Primm said, while showing an image taken in 1908 of her grandmother with classmates at Utica Technical Institute.

“Her two daughters, and now I, this business. We've seen some of everything happen economically, socially and racially here and around the world. And Marshall's is right here, still. That's commitment,” Primm adds.

“My family has been committed to serving. I'm only three generations born out of enslavement and look at what that commitment has become. I love serving our community, and that's what Marshall's Music and Bookstore is … a continuation of the commitment that we have to community.”

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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www.wcbi.com – Ashleigh Bryant – 2024-03-28 18:26:14

SUMMARY: Clear conditions are expected to continue through the end of the in Columbus, Mississippi. Temperatures will drop into the 30s on Thursday night with possible patchy frost. Friday will bring more sunshine with high temperatures in the low to middle 70s. The will see temperatures pushing towards 80 degrees with no rain expected. Next week, warm and humid will flow into the Deep South, with a of scattered showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday. It is still uncertain if these storms will be severe, but it is being monitored closely.

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USDA issues disaster designation for all Mississippi counties

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www.wjtv.com – Delesha – 2024-03-28 16:43:41

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