#OnThisDay in 1961, nine Black students from Tougaloo College entered the all-white Jackson Municipal Library and sat down. Police arrived and ordered them to go to the “colored” library, but when they refused, police arrested them. On the day of their trial, Jackson State University students marched to the lawn outside the jail, where they were joined by Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers and other civil rights activists. Police used tear gas and dogs on the protesters, some of whom were injured by the attack, including an 81-year-old man who suffered a broken arm. The judge ordered each Tougaloo student to pay a $100 fine and gave them each a 30-day suspended sentence. The sit-in inspired other protests across Mississippi, including at Jackson State University, where students, including Dorie and Joyce Ladner, were expelled for their activism. The NAACP filed a lawsuit against the library, which a federal court ordered to desegregate. Photos of the Tougaloo Nine now hang in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. mississippitoday.org/2024/03/27/on-…
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@JMitchellNews When will Mississippi stop being a white supremacist state?
@JMitchellNews Let's clear trauma from racial terrorism and violence please from Black people's lives, livings, bodies, realities & points of view? Let's have us please avenged, healed and restored from all trauma due to terror and oppression please in our DNA? Thank you. Reality reset.
@JMitchellNews And THAT was the last time any of them ever set foot in a library again!
@JMitchellNews @JoeLeydon Straight up heroes.
@JMitchellNews @Brent_Hobbs HEROES FROM THE PAST!!! Progress has never came easily or without costs. Thank God for all of those who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of others!!!