Orangeburg Massacre

The Orangeburg Massacre refers to the shooting of protesters by South Carolina Highway Patrol Officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina near South Carolina State University on the evening of February 8, 1968. The approximately 150 protesters were demonstrating against racial segregation at a local bowling alley. Three of the protesters, African American males, were killed and 28 other protesters were injured.

There was memorial created on the campus of South Carolina State University.

There's also a memorial service every year to hour those who were involved. 

Here's a short video of the memorial. . . . . . . . . . . .

In a state trial in 1970, the activist Cleveland Sellers was convicted of a charge of riot related to the events, for events on Tuesday at the bowling alley. He served seven months in state prison, getting time off for good behavior. He was the national program director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1973 he wrote The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. Twenty-five years later, Sellers was officially pardoned by the governor of South Carolina.

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