Someone is finally attacking Gone With the Wind for its portrayal of happy slaves and noble Klansmen? Hard to believe.
Lincoln got zero popular votes in the South (excluding that part of Virginia that became West Virginia), not electoral votes mind you -- but popular votes. That should tell you something.
Given the reaction of the blue staters to Bush's election and even talk of secession, can you imagine how they would have reacted if Bush were elected with no popular votes at all from a large contiguous portion of the US? I can at least understand Southerners hostility to the Lincoln administration after he was elected.
Alcorn State University was founded on the site originally occupied by Oakland College, a school for whites established by the Presbyterian Church.
Oakland College closed its doors at the beginning of the Civil War so that its students could answer the call to arms. Upon failing to reopen at the end of the war, the property was sold to the state of Mississippi and renamed Alcorn University in honor of James L. Alcorn in 1871, then governor of the state of Mississippi.
James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 - December 19, 1894) was a prominent political figure in Mississippi during the 19th century. He served in the state house of representatives and senate during the 1840's and 1850's. During the American Civil War, he rose to the rank of general in the Confederate Army by war's end. He later served as Republican Governor from 1870-1871, resigned to become U.S. Senator (1871-1877).
Not often mentioned is the fact that there were Black slave owners. There is also little emphasis on the fact that it was Black tribal kings who sold Blacks to the slave ship captains for re-sale in US auctions.