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Sins of our past: Apologies for 1970 Jackson State shootings
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Jackson State Holds Special Commencement For Class Of 1970 After Original Ceremony Was Canceled Over Police Shooting
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By Cherranda Smith
May 17, 2021
On Saturday (May 15), the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi and a state senator offered a formal apology on behalf of the city for deadly shootings on the campus of an HBCU 51 years ago.
Mayor
Chokwe Antar Lumumba and state Sen.
Hillman Fraziergave remarks during a graduation ceremony for Jackson State University for the 1970 police-involved shooting at what was then Jackson State College.
“As
James Baldwin once wrote: ‘When we cannot tell the truth about our past, we become trapped in it,’” Lumumba said. “I believe, as a city, we must publicly atone for the sins of our past and proclaim a new identity of dignity, equity and justice.”
More than a half century late, Jackson State University is honoring its Class of 1970.
Credit: AP
FILE - In this May 15, 1970, file photo, the bullet-riddled windows of Alexander Hall, a women s dormitory at Jackson State College in Jackson, Miss., are shown after two African-American students were killed and 12 injured when police opened fire on the building claiming they had seen a sniper. (AP Photo, File) Author: EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press Published: 6:32 PM CDT May 14, 2021 Updated: 6:32 PM CDT May 14, 2021
JACKSON, Miss Days after National Guard members killed four Kent State University students who were protesting the Vietnam War, white police officers marched onto the campus of a historically Black college in Mississippi’s capital city to violently suppress protests against racism.
JSU Class of 1970 Commencement Ceremony and 51st Gibbs-Green Commemoration
JSU Class of 1970 Commencement Ceremony and 51st Gibbs-Green Commemoration
At 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 15, 2021, Jackson State University will hold a special Commencement ceremony for the Class of 1970 on the Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza.
For the first time ever, members of the Class will have the opportunity to march in their regalia and receive their diplomas, presented by President Thomas K. Hudson, J.D.
In the late hours of May 14 and into the early morning of May 15, 1970, Jackson City Police and Mississippi Highway Patrolmen marched on the Jackson State campus and fired nearly 500 rounds of ammunition in 28 seconds into Alexander Hall, a women’s dormitory. Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, a Junior political science major, and James Earl Green, a Senior at nearby Jim Hill High School, were killed. Twelve others were shot, and dozens were injured by flying debris, glass, and brick in the ensuing chaos. No
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