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...YEAR AGO this month, members of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol fired into a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, and murdered Philip Gibbs and James Earl Green and wounded nine other students. The incident at Jackson, coming within two weeks of the four murders at Kent State, were immediately paralleled to the Kent killings, and used as a re-enforcement of the "Student as Nigger" metaphor. However, there was a large and important difference between what happened at Jackson and what happened at Kent, and an even larger difference in what has been the reaction...
...terms of the killings themselves the most important difference was that the Jackson students, unlike those at Kent, were not engaged in any form of political activity when the Highway Patrol invaded the campus. They were not exercising any constitutional right of dissent, nor had they burned any ROTC buildings, nor, as had some of the Kent State students, had they rampaged through their campus town. The students at Jackson were, as black people have been since the beginning of their importation to this country in the 17the century, pursuing the American dream in all its mortgaged-duplex grandeur...
...year has not erased all of the hatred that flared into gunfire on the campus of Ohio's Kent State University, or assuaged the anguish of the victims' families. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Pittsburgh's Arthur Krause cited a poem as best conveying the "essence and spirit" of his daughter Allison, one of the four students slain by Ohio National Guardsmen. Excerpts from the poem, written by Krause's friend, Manhattan Insurance Broker Peter Davies...
...idea of shutting down Washington grew out of outrage over Cambodia and the tragedies at Kent and Jackson State. Davis and Jerry Coffin, an organizer for the War Resisters League, met last June and discussed the possibility of large-scale civil disobedience. Last summer Davis honed their plans still further during a Berkeley meeting that included Mike Lerner, a leading New Left strategist and a defendant in the Seattle Seven trial. By then a model existed: the tie-up of Seattle's freeways by University of Washington students last...
...year ago this week, the killings at Kent State University fueled mass student protest across the U.S. Now the nation's campuses are encountering the tamest spring offensive by radical students in several years...