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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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May 14, 1970 - James Earl Green & Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, two African-American students, were shot to death and 30 others wounded by local police and state troopers and national guardsmen at primarily black Jackson State University in Mississippi. The two were watching demonstrators protesting the invasion of Cambodia and racial discrimination from a nearby dormitory tower.
This happened shortly after the shooting of students at Kent State University in Ohio. Two days of riots ensued in Jackson resulting in curfews and sealing off of the city.
#JamesEarlGreen #PhillipLafayetteGibbs #JacksonStateUniversity
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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.
#PhillipLafayette #JamesEarlGreen #JacksonStateKillings
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