Floyd Elliott Rice was an American football linebacker who played eight seasons in the NFL for the Houston Oilers, San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, and the New Orleans Saints. He played college football at Alcorn State University.
Alcorn State University is a historically black university comprehensive land-grant institution in Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871. The university is counted as a census-designated place and had a resident population of 1,017 at the 2010 census. It was the first black land grant college... in the United States. Jay Searcy of the Philadelphia Inquirer said in 1994 that "Except for Medgar Evers, the slain civil-rights activist who graduated from the school in the 1940s, an occasional Olympic athlete, and a gritty football team that has sent 68 players to the National Football League, Alcorn rarely gets mentioned outside the state of Mississippi." 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 American Civil War so that its students could fight for the Confederate States of America. 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 the state's governor. Hiram R.more
Natchez is the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi. With a total population of 18,464 , it is the largest community and the only incorporated municipality within Adams County. Located on the Mississippi River, some 90 miles southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and 85 miles north... of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it is the eighteenth-largest city in the state. It is named for the Natchez tribe of Native Americans who lived in the vicinity through the arrival of Europeans in the eighteenth century. Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and most important European settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and served as the capital of the Mississippi Territory and then the state of Mississippi. It antedates Jackson, which replaced Natchez as the capital in 1822, by more than a century. The strategic location of Natchez, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, ensured that it would become a pivotal center of trade, commerce, and the interchange of Native American, European, and African-American cultures in the region for the first two centuries of its existence. In U. S.more