The University of Tennessee is just one school where students reported getting racist text messages. Fisk University also said students received messages.

According to AP, racist text messages referencing slavery were sent to unsuspecting Black men, women and students across the country this week.

Racist text messages summoning Black individuals to "pick cotton" have been sent out to residents across the country, including in Texas, in the wake of the presidential election. Houston area resident Laura Bass Brown told KHOU 11 her daughter,

"It feels very much like a regression period," one student said. "Two steps forward, 10 steps backward, is what comes to mind."

The messages followed the same general script, summoning the recipient to pick cotton on a plantation and assigning a time to be picked up by slave handlers.

Racist text messages received this week primarily by Black students nationwide — including in Missouri — are under investigation by federal authorities. The FBI said in a statement issued Thursday it “is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter.