On the evening of May 11, 1967, Benjamin Brown, a 22-year-old African-American male, found himself an innocent bystander in a volatile standoff between law enforcement and students from Jackson State College in Mississippi. Brown, a truck driver and former civil rights organizer, was not a part of the protest; he was simply trying to pick up a sandwich for his wife from the Kon-Tiki Café. As tensions escalated and officers began firing into the crowd of student protestors, Brown was struck by t
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