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Orangeburg Massacre

Approximately 150 protesters had demonstrated against racial segregation at the All-Star Bowling Alley on several occasions prior to the Orangeburg Massacre. On the evening of February 8, 1968,  South Carolina State University (SCSU) students started a bonfire on the front of campus, which is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina. As police and firefighters attempted to put out the fire, officer David Shealy was injured by a thrown object. South Carolina Highway Patrol officers fired shots at the protestors.

Three of the protestors, African American males, were killed and twenty-eight other protesters were injured. The three men killed included two SCSU students Samuel Hammond (18), Henry Smith (18), and Delano Middleton (17), a student at the local Wilkinson High School. 

At a press conference the following day, Governor Robert E. McNair said the event was "...one of the saddest days in the history of South Carolina."

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Tragedy at Orangeburg: 25 Years Later, Part 1: Intro 1

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Tragedy at Orangeburg: 25 Years Later, Part 1: Intro
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Part 1 of Tragedy at Orangeburg: 25 Years Later, an introduction to the events in Orangeburg in 1968. (Documentary produced in 1993 by Beryl Dakers of South Carolina ETV.) Two reporters, Jack Bass and...
Orangeburg Massacre, Part 1 | Project Discovery 1

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Orangeburg Massacre, Part 1 | Project Discovery
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Part 1 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary. In 1968, civil rights demonstrations, to desegregate a bowling alley near S.C. State University, resulted in the...
Orangeburg Massacre, Part 4 | The Big Picture 4

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Orangeburg Massacre, Part 4 | The Big Picture
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Part 4 of the Commemoration of the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary: An interview with Martin Luther King, III, who was asked what his father would think about the events that occurred 40...