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From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is reveal. I'm Al-Letson. And it's May, 1970.

Attention, blankets the country like a fog. The racial justice movements, women's rights, and peace protests against the Vietnam War,

let's all come into a head. And then Kent State.

Please, best carry out immediately.

Four people lose their lives and nine are injured. The consequences are never justified.

On May 4th, the National Guard shoot at anti-war protesters on Kent State's campus, killing four and wounding nine students.

College campuses across the country explode with calls for justice.

At the historically black college, Jackson State and Mississippi, students are fed up.

Not just with the war and the violence at Kent State, but with years of dealing with races, driving through the middle of campus.

Cars used to come through there, quite often. And the white citizens used to come through and sometimes they would hollow out a screen-mount of synities and throw eggs and bottles and bricks or what-haven.

You know, using the in-word.

That's James Lap Baker. He was a student at Jackson State in 1970. On May 14th, just 10 days after Kent State, students in Jackson lash out. They throw rocks, anything they can get their hands on, at cars being driven by white people through the campus.

That night, an old dump truck is set on fire. Students gather on both sides of the street to watch.

They say back that evening, there was another low incident. But everything settled down.

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