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Gloria Green-McCray (right) and Mattie Hull (left) the sisters of James Earl Green, stand beside a marker and wreath outside Alexander Hall on the Jackson State University campus on May 15, 2019 - 49 years after city and state police opened fire on a group of youth, killing their brother and one other. Photo by Aliyah Veal

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'Blood Was Spilled On These Grounds': JSU Remembers Gibbs and Green

Jackson State University hosted the 49th-annual memorial ceremony and wreath-laying for James Green and Philip Gibbs on May 15, 2019, to commemorate the tragedy that took place outside Alexander Hall …

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