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Jackson State College Broadsheet on the Deaths of P

Broadsheet, "Jackson State College 1970: The death of Phillip Gobbs and James Earl Green," 11"x17," black and red, quarter-folded, fine. Published as a direct mailer by Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, (NYC, NY), which represented the victims' family. Only 10 days after the Kent State killings, the text provides details of this and a previous killing in which Benjamin Brown, a Civil Rights worker, was killed in a police shooting. The Jackson State killings occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14-15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. The police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve. A group of a hundred black students had gathered on Lynch Street on the evening of Thursday the 14th. By around 9:30 p.m. the students had started fires and overturned vehicles, including a large truck. The police responded in force. Advancing to within 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) of the crowd, at roughly 12:05 a.m., police opened fire. The crowd scattered, a number of people were trampled or cut by falling glass. Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, a junior and James Earl Green, 17, a student at nearby Jim Hill High School, were killed, and twelve others were wounded. No arrests were made. Published as a direct mailer by Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, New York, New York.

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