"We, blacks and whites, members of the History and Political Science faculty of Jackson State College," the statement reads,
deplore and condemn the actions on May 14-15 of the local and state police in unleashing a thirty-second fusillade of several hundred bullets into the crowds of people within and near the women's dormitory…
Such actions, in our judgment, constitutes an irresponsible, reckless use of force, grossly disproportionate to the circumstances as alleged by [the mayor]… and by the police themselves. It should be noted also that such actions were taken without prior warning or recourse to non-lethal weapons…
Those responsible for the death of two youths (one a major in our department) on May 14-15, and the wounding of more than a dozen others should be prosecuted, convicted, and punished according to the law.
The resolution was signed by Dr. George Currie, Sister Margaret Hutton, Bennie L. Reeves, Charles Holmes, E.C. Foster, Percy Gambrell, Sister Mary Cotter, Marjorie Jordan, Dan Vogt, Harold F. Sweeney, Jr., Allan Druckery, Ethan Fishman, Tom Sylverton, Burns B. Machobane, Sister Michele Doyle, Fzzat Slaieh, and Thomas J. Robinson.
Learn more at “Faculty Members, Alumni of Jackson State Make Protest.” Clarion-Ledger. May 21, 1970.