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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. ....

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