On the night of May 14, 1970, racial tensions that had been simmering in Jackson, Mississippi, came to a tragic head on the campus of Jackson State College. James Earl Green, a 17-year-old Black male and a senior at nearby Jim Hill High School, was walking home from his job at a grocery store. His path took him through the campus, a place fraught with recent confrontations between Black students and white motorists who would often shout racial slurs while driving through. That evening, the campu
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