On this day, the Mississippi legislature denied adequate funding to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, one of the first Black land-grant institutions in the United States. Despite its promise to provide higher education for African Americans, the state’s failure to support the college reflected the broader efforts to suppress Black advancement through underfunding and neglect of educational institutions. This decision was part of a pattern of systemic discrimination in the post-Reconstruction South.
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