The 100 Men Hall

The 100 Men Hall

The 100 Men Hall (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.)

Archived Since: May 2024

The 100 Men Hall was founded in 1894 by 12 civic-minded African American Bay Saint Louis residents who organized under the name "Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association" in order to "assist its members when sick, bury its dead in a respectable manner, and knit friendship." What started as an organizing group for the African American community grew into an open-air pavilion. Then, in 1922, a cornerstone was laid and the existing Hall was built. At that time, segregation forced Black musicians into a narrow yet robust performance corridor called "the chitlin circuit," an historic network of performance spaces that eventually put the Hall on the Mississippi Blues Trail map.;Webpages and documents related to the visual arts, literature, performing arts, folkways, customs, ceremonies, festivals, and popular traditions of Hancock County, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast region.

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