If one does not understand history, there is no understanding of the present and no vision for the future, said James “Lap” Baker. It’s been 50 years since Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, a pre-law major at Jackson State College, and James Earl Green, 17, a student at the neighboring Jim Hill High School were killed by police on the campus of the HBCU on May 15, 1970. For Baker, it is an indelible day. “It was a planned massacre in my opinion,” said the 67-year-old Picayune native. Read more in the #JacksonianMag. jsums.edu/jacksonian The link is in our bio. #JacksonState #HBCU #JacksonianMag #GibbsGreen50