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1970 – Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.


In 1970, two black students at Jackson State

University in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests. The incident occurred on May 15, 1970, and was a result of a May 14 protest against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War

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