Topic - Tougaloo Nine

The Tougaloo Nine were a group of African-American students at Tougaloo College, who participated in civil disobedience by staging sit-ins of segregated public institutions in Mississippi in 1961. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - This Aug. 17, 2017 file photo shows Meredith C. Anding Jr. in Jackson, Miss. Anding, one of the &quot;Tougaloo Nine&quot; college students who participated in a library &quot;read-in&quot; in segregated Mississippi on March, 27, 1961, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. He was 79. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Meredith Anding Jr., member of the ‘Tougaloo Nine,’ dies

By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press