The Tougaloo Nine: The Jackson Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights -- M. J. O'Brien, Hardcover

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The Tougaloo Nine: The Jackson Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights -- M. J. O'Brien, HardcoverWINNER OF THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S 2026 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD During a dramatic three day period in March 1961, nine students from historically Black Tougaloo College staged sit ins at the all White Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi. The students conducted their protest and were arrested, held in jail overnight, and convicted of "breach of peace" the first time that charge had ever been brought in a Mississippi courtroom. Meanwhile,

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