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Event Description Help us celebrate Little Free Library Week on May 3 through 7. Little Free Libraries are the small neighborhood library boxes where people can pick up a book or leave a book. Riverside Regional Library maintains one official Little Free Library in Jackson by the Ground-A-Bout as well as three other neighborhood libraries in Jackson and one in Perryville. If you’re interested in establishing a neighborhood library box in your neighborhood, see the https://littlefreelibrary.or...

Mississippi Civil Rights activist Meredith Anding Jr. dies at 79 Meredith C Anding Jr. died Friday of leukemia. (Source: Family) By WLBT Digital | January 10, 2021 at 4:58 PM CST - Updated January 10 at 5:33 PM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -A Mississippi Civil Rights icon has died. Meredith Anding Jr. died Friday of Leukemia at the age of 79-years old. He was an active member of the NAACP where he worked closely with Medgar Evers. In 1961, was one of nine Tougaloo College students who challenge...