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May 1970 Gibbs – Green Tragedy at Jackson State University: Virtual gallery talk with Luckett and Derby

May 1970 Gibbs – Green Tragedy at Jackson State University: Virtual gallery talk with Luckett and Derby
May 1970 Gibbs – Green Tragedy at Jackson State University: Virtual gallery talk with Luckett and Derby
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Virtually Luckett and Derby discuss her photo exhibit of the Gibbs-Green shooting on the Jackson State College campus.
Gibbs and Green
During the spring of 1970 student protests and demonstrations were rampant throughout American campuses against racism and repression, the Vietnam War and discrimination against women and minorities in education.
John R. Lynch Street was a clearway for linking west Jackson to downtown.
In May white car drivers and their passengers rode through the campus of Jackson State College on Lynch Street and harassed students with racial slurs, accelerated speeds, object throwing and hit-and-runs. Students protested against these harassments. ....

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As statues fall, protests rise, civil rights museums are key

As statues fall, protests rise, civil rights museums are key
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As statues fall, protests rise, civil rights museums are key

As statues fall, protests rise, civil rights museums are key
by Tonyaa Weathersbee, Memphis Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 12, 2020 12:01 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 12, 2020 at 12:12 am EDT
Noelle Trent, who serves as the director of interpretation, collections and education at the National Civil Rights Museum, poses for a photo Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn., in the museum s combating Jim Crow gallery. (Max Gersh/The Commercial Appeal via AP)
JACKSON, Miss. In 1963, Margaret Walker’s neighbour, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, in Jackson, Mississippi.
Then, 150 miles north of Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. ....

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