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Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS
Founded in 1869 in Mississippi, Tougaloo College became the intellectual headquarters of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, hosting Freedom Riders, SNCC organizers, and international solidarity visitors who made its campus a sanctuary of interracial activism in the most violently segregated state in the nation.
Counter-Narrative
The myth this site refutes: that Black communities lacked investment in learning. HBCUs and freedom schools existed before many white institutions.
Before & After This Era
← Before · Early Republic
→ After · Jim Crow
Sites in Conversation
"Shared theme: Education & HBCUs"
"Shared theme: Education & HBCUs"
"Shared theme: Education & HBCUs"