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Learn about the impact of the Tougaloo Nine during a gallery talk and flash tour at the Two Mississippi Museums on Saturday, March 29! Civil-rights era photographer Jerry Keahey Sr. will speak about his experience working with and capturing iconic images of the Tougaloo Nine at 11 a.m. A flash tour about the Tougaloo Nine will take place at 2 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. The Tougaloo Nine was a group of nine undergraduate students at Tougaloo College, then named Tougaloo Southern Christian College, who staged sit-ins at the all-White Jackson Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email [email protected].
Photo credit: MDAH WLBT Newsfilm Collection
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Two Mississippi Museums, Jackson, United States
