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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lethal Attack. Campus unrest continued in assorted forms, much of it politically oriented but with violence all too prevalent. The University of South Carolina at Columbia was the scene of skirmishing between youngsters and both police and National Guardsmen. Disorder in Jackson, Mississippi, at least partly related to antiwar sentiment, exploded with a salvo of police bullets that killed two young blacks and wounded at least twelve. In Augusta, Ga., a ghetto protest over the jailhouse death of a black youth led to a lethal police attack on looters...
...jeering students provoking a line of nervous armed peace officers. Rumors of snipers. The crash of rocks and bottles. And suddenly some signal triggering an atavistic convulsion brought on an unexpected eruption of gunfire. Finally, the youthful bodies, bleeding on the smooth campus lawn. The scene this time was Mississippi's predominantly black Jackson State College...
...Ebert suspended normal business at the Med School "to mark the deaths of those students needlessly killed at Kent State University and the needless deaths in Southeast Asia." Since then, two other students-at all-black Jackson State College in Mississippi-have died in campus disorders. Today's day of mourning coincides with "Black Solidarity...
This country is so fat and lazy that it can only get off its ass when someone is killed. It took the death of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and countless Panthers to make anyone think about black people. It took the death of three civil-rights workpants in Ohio to make people think about the war. It will probably take more deaths to make anyone do anything about either...
...from its men, and independent political thought is one of the gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining some connection between the "mutiny" and anti-war politics, the Army came down hard on the dissidents...