Select Articles about the Gibbs-Green Tragedy
“Students killed by police after 1970 JSU protest remembered: ‘A senseless loss of two young lives'”
Shaunicy Muhammad, Mississippi Free Press
May 17, 2024
“After a wave of HBCU bomb threats, a look at another era of violence at Jackson State”
Brittany Brown, Mississippi Public Broadcasting
March 3, 2022
“Amid apology and regret for police murders of Gibbs and Green, JSU Class of ’70 finally marches”
Aliyah Veal, Mississippi Free Press
May 25, 2021
“Amid apology and regret for police murders of Gibbs and Green, JSU Class of ’70 finally marches”
Dr. Ivory Phillips, Jackson Advocate
May 20, 2021
“Jackson State holds special commencement for Class of 1970 after original ceremony was canceled over police shooting”
Paul Meara, BET
May 18, 2021
“A police shooting delayed this Black college’s graduation in 1970. Now, those students finally got their ceremony – and an apology”
Leah Asmelash, CNN
May 17, 2021
“Officials apologize for deadly police shooting at a Black college in 1970”
Neil Vidgor, The New York Times
May 17, 2021
“‘Sins of our past’: Leaders apologize for 1970 Jackson State shootings”
The Associated Press, NBC News
May 15, 2021
“‘I saw all the carnage’: Witnesses, family recall Gibbs-Green deaths, legacy in virtual town hall”
Aliyah Veal, Mississippi Free Press
May 14, 2020
“50 years ago, police fired on students at a historically Black college”
Dr. Robert Luckett, The New York Times
May 14, 2020
“‘All hell broke loose’: Memories still vivid of Jackson State shooting 50 years ago”
Rachel James-Terry and L.A. Warren, Clarion Ledger
May 15, 2020
“The Jackson State shootings are often overlooked. But Rich Caster still remembers.”
Kevin B. Blackistone, The Washington Post
May 14, 2020
“50 Years After the Jackson State Killings, America’s Crisis of Racial Injustice Continues—and Shows the Danger of Forgetting”
Nancy K. Bristow, TIME
May 14, 2020
“‘I could hear the bullets whizzing past my face’: Survivors remember the shootings at Jackson State”
Ashley Norwood, Mississippi Public Broadcasting
May 15, 2020