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.