The Tougaloo Nine: Where the Jackson Movement Began
On March 27, 1961, nine brave students from Tougaloo College walked into the Jackson Public Library on Ellis Avenue in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. They didn’t carry signs. They didn’t shout…
Appreciation – Meredith C. Anding, Jr. (1941 – 2021) and the Tougaloo Nine
Upon first meeting, many a visitor may have been tempted to consider Meredith Coleman Anding, Jr., a reticent, almost opaque, man. Soft spoken, terse yet amiable, sphinxlike, enigmatic. Instead, he…