Ten days after the shooting in Kent, Black students at Jackson State University were protesting racial harassment by white motorists (travelling down Lynch Street, which ran through the middle of JSU campus), along with the shootings at Kent State University 10 days earlier. Shortly after midnight on May 15, Mississippi police open fire on the protestors gathered in front of Alexander Hall (a women’s dormitory on campus). Twelve students were injured in the 30-second barrage of gunfire; two students, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs (JSU undergraduate) and James Earl Green (senior at Jim Hill high school), were killed.