This website continues the relationship between Brown University and Tougaloo College, a relationship that began as part of the Mississippi Freedom Movement.
Freedom Now! contains documents from Tougaloo and Brown's Archives, gathered by students and faculty from both institutions.
We believe that the Mississippi Freedom Movement remains one of the most inspiring and important example of grass-roots activism in U.S. history, and that it had a crucial impact on the fight for racial equality in this country.
We feel more students should learn the details of this struggle. The documents on this site fall into two related categories: the Mississippi Freedom Movement, in which Tougaloo played a pivotal role, and the Brown-Tougaloo Cooperative Exchange, which grew out of that activism and continues today.