Margaret Mitchell's estate sued to stop a novel retelling Gone With the Wind from the view of a slave, and ended up funding a Black college

Mitchell was struck by a car in Atlanta in 1949^†. Her copyrights passed to family trusts, administered for her heirs by SunTrust Bank^†. In 2001 Houghton Mifflin planned to publish Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, which retells Gone With the Wind from the perspective of an enslaved woman. The Mitchell trusts sued. In April 2001 a federal district court blocked publication. In May 2001 the Eleventh Circuit lifted the injunction as an unlawful prior restraint under the First Amendment, and its written opinion of 10 October 2001 treated the book as parody. In May 2002 the parties settled confidentially. The book stayed in print with a label reading "An Unauthorized Parody." At the Mitchell trusts' request, Houghton Mifflin made an unspecified contribution to Morehouse College, a historically Black college in Atlanta. Both sides reserved rights on future adaptations. Gone With the Wind has sold more than 30 million copies^†, and the trusts' income has benefited Mitchell's nephews and the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta^†.