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Today in History: May 15, police kill two students during Jackson State protests

Also on this date, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s fast-food restaurant, in San Bernardino, California.

A black and white image of people talking in front of a bullet-riddled window
File – Mayor Charles Evers, of Fayette, Miss., a civil rights leader, talks with students outside the bullet-riddled women’s dormitory at Jackson State College, in Jackson, Miss., where two young African-Americans were shot to death by police, May 15, 1970. Windows on all five floors of the dormitory were shattered by the gun fire. (AP Photo, File)
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Less than two weeks after the shooting at Kent State University, two Black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed and 12 were injured when police opened fire during student demonstrations.

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