#GibbsGreen: In the late hours of May 14 and into the early morning of May 15, 1970, Jackson City Police and Mississippi Highway Patrolmen marched on the Jackson State campus and fired nearly 500 rounds of ammunition in 28 seconds into Alexander Hall, a women’s dormitory. Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, a junior political science major, and James Earl Green, a senior at nearby Jim Hill High School, were killed. Twelve others were shot, and dozens were injured by flying debris, glass, and brick in the ensuing chaos. Yesterday, during our 54th Annual Gibbs-Green Commemoration, we paid tribute to the memory of Phillip and James. During the ceremony, JSU President Marcus Thompson, Ph.D., presented an honorary degree to Dale Gibbs, wife of Phillip Gibbs, and her family.