On the night of May 14, 1970, escalating tensions on the campus of Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi, culminated in a tragic outburst of violence. Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, a 21-year-old Black man and a junior at the college, was killed in a hail of gunfire unleashed by Jackson police and Mississippi Highway Patrol officers. Another young man, James Earl Green, a 17-year-old high school student, also lost his life, and twelve others were injured.
The events of that night unfold
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