This illustration is of the Tougaloo 9 (Meredith Coleman Anding Jr., James Cleo Bradford, Alfred Lee Cook, Geraldine Edwards, Janice Jackson, Joseph Jackson Jr., Albert Earl Lassiter, Evelyn Pierce, and Ethel Sawyer) — a group of undergraduate college student activists from the HBCU Tougaloo in Jackson, Mississippi. I painted this as part of an ongoing series of illustrations highlighting hidden figures for Black History Month, called “Black Is Beautiful” using watercolor. More background here.