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.HistoryEstablishmentIn 1869, the American Missionary Association of New York purchased 500acre of one of the largest former plantations in central Mississippi to build a college for freedmen and their children, recently freed slaves. The purchase included a standing mansion and outbuildings, which were immediately converted for use as a school. The next year expansion of facilities began in earnest with the construction of two new buildings — Washington Hall, a 70-foot-long edifice containing classrooms and a lecture hall, and Boarding Hall, a two-story building which included a kitchen and dining hall, a laundry, and dormitories for 30 female students.
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