The Jackson State Massacre: While the United states Armed Forces are in Vietnam, “united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom,” state and municipal police fatally shoot Phillip L. Gibbs, a Jackson State College student and James E. Green, a Jim Hill High School student, who were protesting the Vietnamese-American War.
[restored 10/27/2022]
Subsequent Events:
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 414.
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