The Tougaloo Nine, staged sit-ins at the all-white Jackson Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi.
1961 - The Tougaloo Nine, staged sit-ins at the all-white Jackson Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi.
Nine undergraduate students at Tougaloo College staged at sit-in, for which they were trained by Medgar Evers, President of the Jackson Branch of the NAACP. All nine students were arrested.