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Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Originally established by New York–based Christian missionaries for the education of freed slaves and their offspring, from 1871 until 1892 the college served as a teachers' training school funded by the state of Mississippi.
In 1998 the buildings of the old campus were added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Tougaloo College has a rich history of civic and social activism including the Tougaloo Nine. The college hosted the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Freedom Summer in June, 2014.
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AL.com
February 26, 2018
INROADS is partnering with Talladega, Oakwood University and Tougaloo College, which are all historical black colleges and universities. Talladega is the first institution to host the program. Talladega College President Billy C. Hawkins called Career Pathways "absolutely a great program for our students.
Birmingham Times
February 26, 2018
Seven member institutions are located in the UNCF Birmingham area: Miles College; Oakwood University; Stillman College; Talladega College; Tuskegee University; Rust College and Tougaloo College. Also filling the ballroom for the gala were volunteers, alumni and others who support UNCF's missionÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 25, 2018
She moved to Woodville at 17 and graduated from the all-black Johnson High School then enrolled at Natchez College before transferring to Tougaloo College, where she became an activist. She participated in a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson in 1963, where a newspaper photographerÃÂ ...
The Washington Informer
February 24, 2018
The four schools — Tougaloo College in Mississippi, Xavier University of Louisiana, Dillard University in New Orleans and Southern University at New Orleans — borrowed the money from the federal government to rebuild their campuses after the 2005 hurricane. Just $12.4 million had been paid backÃÂ ...
Jackson Free Press
February 12, 2018
Sen. Thad Cochran played a key role in ensuring that Tougaloo College was included in a debt clearance measure for four historically black colleges and ... #Dillard University, Xavier University and Southern University at New Orleans and Tougaloo College, just north of Jackson, Mississippi, borrowed theÃÂ ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
February 11, 2018
NEW ORLEANS — One historically black university in Mississippi and three others in New Orleans will see about $330 million in post-Katrina debt owed to the federal government cleared under a provision in a congressional budget deal signed by President Donald Trump. Tougaloo College, and DillardÃÂ ...
Jackson Free Press
February 2, 2018
Tougaloo College announced on Jan. 19 that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation presented the school with a $272,000 grant for a new documentary on the life and legacy of Mississippi native and civil-rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer titled "Fannie Lou Hamer's America." Photo courtesy Warren K. Leffler/US NewsÃÂ ...
Florida State News
December 31, 1999
Houck, whose research interests include the Black Freedom Movement, is teaming up with Tougaloo College in Mississippi and the Kellogg Foundation on the film “Fannie Lou Hamer's America” and the corresponding civil rights K-12 curriculum, “Find Your Voice.” Houck said he hopes the project willÃÂ ...
Jackson Free Press
December 31, 1999
"We want people to come out and support so we can help circulate the black dollar." #The Jackson Black Business Expo is Saturday, March 24, at the Health and Wellness Center on the Tougaloo College campus (500 W. County Line Road, tougaloo.edu) from noon to 5 p.m. For more, find the event onÃÂ ...
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