On May 15, 1970, white police opened fire on students in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black institution in Mississippi, killing two young people and injuring twelve. Frequently linked to the shootings at Kent State University ten days earlier, the violence at Jackson State was routinely misunderstood and largely forgotten by all but the local African American community. This book provides a full account of these shootings and their aftermath, as well as historical amnesia about the incident.
On May 15, 1970, white police opened fire on students in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black institution in Mississippi, killing two young people and injuring twelve. Frequently linked to the shootings at Kent State University ten days earlier, the violence at Jackson State was routinely misunderstood and largely forgotten by all but the local African American community. This book provides a full account of these shootings and their aftermath, as well as historical amnesia about the incident.
Nancy Bristow is Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. She is the author of American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (OUP, 2012) and Making Men Moral: Social Engineering during the Great War.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "They're taking these scars away" * Chapter One: "A well conceived scheme to maintain segregation": Jackson State College and the Struggle for Freedom * Chapter Two: "A revolution in our books": Civil Rights, Black Power, and a Changing Campus * Chapter Three: "Buckshot, rifle slugs, a submachine gun": The Shootings at Jackson State College * Chapter Four: "An open season on Negroes": The Struggles over the Aftermath * Chapter Five: "The law says they can do it, and they did it": The Civil Suit and the Triumph of the Law and Order Perspective * Chapter Six: "Largely unknown to the public": Race, Law and Order, and the Struggle over Memory * Conclusion: "It was not a story to pass on": The Ongoing Trauma of State Violence * Notes * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "They're taking these scars away" * Chapter One: "A well conceived scheme to maintain segregation": Jackson State College and the Struggle for Freedom * Chapter Two: "A revolution in our books": Civil Rights, Black Power, and a Changing Campus * Chapter Three: "Buckshot, rifle slugs, a submachine gun": The Shootings at Jackson State College * Chapter Four: "An open season on Negroes": The Struggles over the Aftermath * Chapter Five: "The law says they can do it, and they did it": The Civil Suit and the Triumph of the Law and Order Perspective * Chapter Six: "Largely unknown to the public": Race, Law and Order, and the Struggle over Memory * Conclusion: "It was not a story to pass on": The Ongoing Trauma of State Violence * Notes * Index
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