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Alcorn State University | Mississippi Encyclopedia

Founded in 1871, Alcorn State University is the oldest historically black land-grant institution in the United States and the second-oldest state-supported university in Mississippi. Alcorn is located in rural southwestern Mississippi, in Claiborne County, forty-five miles south of Vicksburg and forty miles north of Natchez. It was founded on a site originally occupied by Oakland […]...

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Material Type:: Reference Material
Date Added to MERLOT:: June 1, 2021
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 1, 2021
Author:: Josephine Posey, Alcorn State University
Submitter:: Mikaela Wiley

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