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killings on HBCU campuses  

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  • Several young people were killed and dozens were injured in confrontations between students and law enforcement officers at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) related to civil rights and antiwar demonstrations in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Student unrest was widespread on college and university campuses of the era. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Education; Killings on HBCU Campuses]

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