Jackson State

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• 3/21/2021
  

  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?

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/12/2020
  

  ‘Steeped in the Blood of Racism’

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

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/4/2020
  

  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.