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1970 Jackson State Shootings
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
12 May 2023
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Black Agenda Radio Ā· Jackson State Shootings in 1970

C. Liegh McInnis is a poet, short story writer, and former instructor at Jackson State University. He joins us from Jackson, Mississippi to discuss the 1970 killing of two young Black men by police at Jackson State, an Historically Black College.

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