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The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, in Jackson, Mississippi. Around midnight on May 14, city and state police confronted a group of students and opened fire on them, killing two students and injuring twelve.
This incident took place just 11 days after the National Guard opened fire on Kent State students. I imagine you never heard of this shooting.
At, or about, 9:30pm on May 14th African American students gathered in response to a rumor that the mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, Charles Evers, the brother of Medgar Evers, and his wife had been assassinated.
Seventy-five policeman and Mississippi State Police officers arrived to control the crowd. At around 12:05 a.m. on May 15, 1970, the police opened fire on the crowd, and twenty-one-year-old Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and seventeen-year-old James Earl Green were killed. Gibbs was a junior pre-law major at Jackson State and father of an eighteen-month-old son; Green was a senior at Jim Hill High School in Jackson.
The justification for the police opening fire continues to be disputed.
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The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, in Jackson, Mississippi. Around midnight on May 14, city and state police confronted a group of students and opened fire on them, killing two students and injuring twelve.
This incident took place just 11 days after the National Guard opened fire on Kent State students. I imagine you never heard of this shooting.
At, or about, 9:30pm on May 14th African American students gathered in response to a rumor that the mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, Charles Evers, the brother of Medgar Evers, and his wife had been assassinated.
Seventy-five policeman and Mississippi State Police officers arrived to control the crowd. At around 12:05 a.m. on May 15, 1970, the police opened fire on the crowd, and twenty-one-year-old Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and seventeen-year-old James Earl Green were killed. Gibbs was a junior pre-law major at Jackson State and father of an eighteen-month-old son; Green was a senior at Jim Hill High School in Jackson.
The justification for the police opening fire continues to be disputed.
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The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, in Jackson, Mississippi. Around midnight on May 14, city and state police confronted a group of students and opened fire on them, killing two students and injuring twelve.
This incident took place just 11 days after the National Guard opened fire on Kent State students. I imagine you never heard of this shooting.
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