The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution ... the Trump administration abruptly fired Hayden, the first Black person and the first woman to hold the position.

Off campus, Black Mississippians were banned from white schools ... a marker honoring the Tougaloo Nine stands outside the old library, abandoned and gray with age. This year, Tougaloo College ...

There's a different kind of hush over the old, white library on Main Street ... Brown, green and black blotches cover the drywall. A grayish dust covers umbrellas over small tables where kids ...

Now, a new project aims to breathe life into the grand old house and revive ... of the building were for white library patrons and the basement was to be used by Black patrons and that not ...