Orangeburg Massacre 1968

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The shootings occurred on February 8, 1968, two nights after an effort by students from an almost all-black college to bowl at the city’s only bowling alley. The owner refused. Tensions rose and violence erupted. When it ended, 28 students were injured and three were dead.

 

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