Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College

by Nancy K Bristow and Nancy K. Bristow

Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1970, white members of the Jackson city police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on young people in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, discharging "buckshot, rifle slugs, a submachine gun, carbines with military ammunition, and two 30.06 rifles loaded with armor-piercing bullets." Twenty-eight seconds later two young people lay...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190215372
• ISBN13: 9780190215378
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"