Jackson State

Policing, Protest, and the Role of the University

by David S. Busch

Student activists at Northwestern, in other words, are asking a similar question that emerged out of the 1960s and famous protest moments at Jackson State and Kent State in 1970: What should be the university’s public purpose?

‘Steeped in the Blood of Racism’

"[Jackson State] reflects so many themes in the history of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans."

Remembering the Jackson State Tragedy

by Nancy K. Bristow

The violence wasn’t caused by anti-war student protest; it was another chapter in the long history of state violence against African Americans.