Steeped in the blood of racism : Black power, law and order, and the 1970 shootings at Jackson State College

Steeped in the blood of racism : Black power, law and order, and the 1970 shootings at Jackson State College / Nancy K. Bristow.

"This book recounts the death of two young African Americans, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green and the wounding of twelve others caused when white police and highway patrolmen opened fire on students in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college (...

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Main Author: Bristow, Nancy K., 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Jackson State College > History.
Jackson State College
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Jackson.
Black power > Mississippi > Jackson.
Student movements > Mississippi > Jackson > History > 20th century.
Riots > Mississippi > Jackson > History > 20th century.
Murder > Mississippi > Jackson > History > 20th century.
Police shootings > Mississippi > Jackson > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights
Black power
Murder
Police shootings
Race relations
Riots
Student movements
Jackson (Miss.) > Race relations.
Mississippi > Jackson
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "Everybody knows about Mississippi goddam" : the shootings of May 15, 1970
  • "A well conceived scheme to maintain racial segregation" : Jackson State College and the struggle for freedom
  • "Wake up brothers and sisters" : civil rights, black power, and a changing campus
  • "Buckshot, rifle slugs, a submachine gun" : the shootings at Jackson State College
  • "They killed a bunch of black kids" : the struggles over the aftermath
  • "The law says they can do it, and they did it" : the civil suit and the power of the law and order perspective
  • "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.

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