On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Mizzou's Morrill Act land was expropriated from the Osage through two coercive 19th century treaties. The Osage Treaties of 1808 and 1825 forced the tribe to give up all its ancestral lands in ...

Mizzou sold most of its Morrill Act land, originally taken from the Osage Nation, funding its growth while the Land-Grab Universities project highlights the impact on Native communities.

The Morrill Act was signed into law in 1862. In January 1870, two men persuaded the Territorial Legislature that the area was ideal for a college.

Lincoln’s 1863 signing of the Morrill Act established a system of like-minded universities known as Land Grant schools and provided federally donated land to be used specifically for higher ...

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Inside Morrill Hall Monday, protesters from the UMN Students for a Democratic Society barricaded doors and windows in an occupation that left the University of Minnesota on a complete lockdown.

This is not the first time such a demand has been made. In 2021, ASMSU passed bill 57-72 advocating for the removal of Morrill's name from the building. That bill eventually expired after three ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Morrill Hall’s $9.3 million renovation funded by a legislative bill is setting up the museum for the next 50 years. The University of Nebraska museum added an updated HVAC ...

There was also a second Morrill Act, in 1890. This allowed Congress to make regular appropriations for the support of land-grant institutions.