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Meredith Anding Jr., member of the Tougaloo Nine, dies
by Leah Willingham, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 12, 2021 3:56 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 12, 2021 at 3:58 pm EDT
JACKSON, Miss. Meredith C. Anding Jr., a member of the “Tougaloo Nine,” who famously participated in a library “read-in” in segregated Mississippi 60 years ago, has died. He was 79.
Anding was diagnosed with leukemia and had been sick since March, his son Armaan Anding said. He died Friday in Brandon, Mississippi.
The Tougaloo Nine were students at the historically Black institution Tougaloo College who staged a peaceful sit-in at Jackson’s white-only library on March, 27, 1961. It is widely considered the first student protest of segregation at a public institution in Mississippi.
Mississippi Civil Rights activist Meredith Anding Jr. dies at 79 Meredith C Anding Jr. died Friday of leukemia. (Source: Family) By WLBT Digital | January 10, 2021 at 4:58 PM CST - Updated January 10 at 5:33 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -A Mississippi Civil Rights icon has died. Meredith Anding Jr. died Friday of Leukemia at the age of 79-years old.
He was an active member of the NAACP where he worked closely with Medgar Evers.
In 1961, was one of nine Tougaloo College students who challenged segregation by participating in sit-ins at the all-white Jackson Main Library.
This group would later be known as the Tougaloo Nine.