nies of faculty and students at the school, no one was prosecuted for the damaged and lost lives. Since nothing was done to punish the police officers, the Jackson City Council decided they would block off Lynch Street to automobile traffic. A memorial plaza, the Gibbs-Green Plaza, was constructed in honor of the lives taken at the Jackson State riots (Jackson 1-2).The unrest on college campuses during the 1960s was one of the drastic results of the United States getting involved in the war in Vietnam. Students held great opposition to the war because they believed that the U.S. was power hungry and greedy, looking out only for their best interest and forgetting the liberties of the Vietnamese people. This major aversion was expressed through changes in clothing and behavior, but much more importantly through both violent and nonviolent demonstrations. American universities nationwide reaped the effects of the Vietnam war as students decided they would not longer be indifferent but instead freely proclaim their viewpoints through words and actions....
