ORANGEBURG MASSACRE 1968



MURDERED IN ORANGEBURG

 On Feb. 8, 1968, after three nights of escalating racial tension over efforts by students of then-SC State College and others to desegregate the local All-Star Bowling Lanes, three students were killed and 27 others were injured when S.C. Highway Patrolmen opened fire on a crowd of unarmed protesters at the head of campus.

This was the first time in  US history police opened fire on students.


The shootings mark one of the least remembered chapters in U.S. civil rights history, overshadowed by the successive blows of that turbulent year, including the April assassination of Martin Luther King.

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