# @jacksonstateu on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BSwPPJ5jXyk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15115333-jacksonstateu-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-04-11T17:38:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jackson State U. (@JacksonStateU) — https://gondola.cc/JacksonStateU

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Jackson State University commemorated the 47th anniversary of the #GibbsGreen tragedy that occurred May 15, 1970, with students, faculty and staff listening to reflections and a call for continued remembrance of that bitter past that left two people dead and at least a dozen injured.

The Margaret Walker Alexander Research Center at JSU sponsored the wreath-laying event on Monday, April 10, on the memorial Gibbs-Green Plaza. The site was named in honor of two individuals slain from gunfire that erupted from the Mississippi Highway Patrol: Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, a junior pre-law major and married father of an 18-month-old son and another child on the way; and James Earl Green, 17, a senior at Jim Hill High School, who was killed while observing the chaos.

A number of people affected by the tragedy returned to pay homage to those who lost their lives or were injured. A wreath was placed outside Alexander Residence Hall, a building struck by a barrage of gunfire. 
Read more about the 47th Commemoration by visiting the JSU Newsroom: www.jsumsnews.com

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