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Opinions | How the Tougaloo Nine transformed history

Opinions | How the Tougaloo Nine transformed history
Sophia Gardner, Brie Thompson-Bristol, Kathy Roberts Forde
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Meredith C. Anding Jr., one of the Tougaloo Nine, in Jackson, Miss., in August 2017. Anding and eight other Tougaloo College students were arrested in 1961 for holding a “read-in” at the whites-only public library in Jackson. He died on Jan. 8 at age 79.
Sixty years ago this spring, nine Tougaloo College students entered the main branch of the public library in Jackson, Miss., to consult books not available at the “colored” branch. Their goal? To integrate a Deep South public facility that refused to serve Black patrons even as it depended on Black taxpayer dollars. ....

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Tougaloo Nine launched a movement challenged by the full force of Mississippi's white supremacist power structure in the 1960s

This oft-forgotten episode epitomized the courage of civil rights activists facing severe repression. ....

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