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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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Black History Month: The Tougaloo Nine try integrating local library through read-in


Black History Month: The Tougaloo Nine try integrating local library through read-in
Black History Month: The Tougaloo Nine try integrating local library through read-in
By Quentin Smith | February 25, 2021 at 11:15 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 10:24 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Outside the old Jackson Municipal Library on State Street sits a Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker honoring the courageous efforts of nine Tougaloo College students.
In March of 1961, the students, Joseph Jackson Jr., Geraldine Edwards Hollis, Albert Lassiter, Alfred Cook, Ethel Sawyer, Evelyn Pierce, Janice Jackson, James “Sammy” Bradford, and Meredith C. Anding Jr. weren’t allowed to access the library due to the color of their skin. ....

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