On This Day in 1970: Two Young Black Men Were Killed at Jackson State

(AURN News) — On May 15, 1970, a horrific tragedy unfolded at Jackson State College in Mississippi.

Just 10 days after the Kent State shootings, racial tensions and anti-war protests culminated in violence.

Mississippi highway patrolmen and city police converged on campus, eventually opening a relentless barrage of gunfire toward Alexander Hall.

They fired more than 400 rounds, claiming the lives of Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, a 21-year-old junior, and James Earl Green, a high school student. Neither was armed…

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