ON THIS DAY IN UNITED STATES HISTORY
February 8, 1968
The Orangeburg Massacre Occurs
in Orangeburg, South Carolina
On this day in 1968, the Orangeburg Massacre occurs, an incident in which a group of young people protesting
segregation at a bowling alley were fired upon by police.
Three were killed and twenty-seven injured, most of them in the back. This incident was the first of its kind on a
United States University campus but it was followed by much more widely known incidents at Kent State and Jackson
State.
This was a dark time in United States history coinciding with with the U.S. peak involvement in the Vietnam
war.
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