Tougaloo College is located in Jackson, Mississippi and sits on 500 acres of a former plantation along West County Line Road. It was founded in 1869 by The American Missionary Association of New York with the purpose to educate newly freed African Americans. Like many HBCUs founded during this time period, it started out as a place to train African Americans to become teachers. The school writes of its own origins, The roots of Tougaloo’s story stretch back to the freedom struggle aboard La Amistad. In 1846, the American Missionary Association (AMA) was founded from that same abolitionist movement, linking
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