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The Tougaloo Nine Changed Civil Rights History in 1961
Nine Black college students walked into a whites-only Mississippi library in 1961, knowing they'd be arrested for simply wanting to read. Their brave sit-in sparked a movement that deserves far more recognition in civil rights history.