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On this day in 1970, police opened fire at Jackson State College in Mississippi, killing Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green and injuring 12 others. The shooting came just days after the Kent State tragedy and remains a painful chapter in the history of racial injustice and protest in America.
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