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>A Moment In Time.
That line made me curious. Did a little dig. Landed on "A Moment in Time" blog with Dan Roberts which focuses on the Morrill Act as it relates to education (blog post dated 6/12/2020). There's an attached pdf which talks about land-grants around the time of the Civil War and how they were nothing new, mentioning that the English Crown had designated 10k acres for an educational institution in Virginia. Mention for a second act of it included that, for states that still practiced segregation, to receive funds they would have to use some of them for the creation of Black colleges (Morrill was anti-slavery Republican who was Speaker of the House starting in 1865).
Screenshot is from p. 4 of the pdf linked below.
https://www.amomentintime.com/matthew-brady-i-5-22/
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.amomentintime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/AMT2-180-Morrill-Act.pdf&hl=en