#orangeburg massacre

[porterdavis]

Did you learn about Orangeburg massacre?

Me either.

Feb. 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre

Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the bac

[garadinervi]

«Doesn't anyone give a damn about the Murder in Orangeburg!», (flyer announcing a meeting), W.E.B. DuBois Club, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 22, [1968] [Raymond K. O'Cain papers, 1967-1969, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC]

[protoslacker]

Orangeburg Massacre - 1968, Facts & Memorial | HISTORY

The Orangeburg Massacre, one of the most violent yet least recognized episodes of the civil rights period, unfolded at South Carolina State

I was 13 in 1968 and we lived in South Carolina. I remember being outraged by the killing of three students and the wonding of 20 more by police gunfire. But I was also certainly just a boy.

I do have some pleasant memories of 1968. I felt more accepted and confident in school. I also paid attenton to the news and when I think about that year I remember a pale of sadness about the state of the world.

I don't think that pale has ever lifted.

[lowcountrydigitallibrary]

Today marks 50 years since the Orangeburg Massacre, a day often forgot even in local memory. On February 8, 1968, South Carolina Highway Patrolmen opened fire on African American college students protesting against ongoing segregation in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Three students were killed and twenty-eight wounded. This shooting was one of the most violent events in South Carolina's 20th century civil rights history. To learn more about what happened, and how local civil rights activist, Cleveland Sellers, found himself at the center of the aftermath, head to The Orangeburg Massacre, an exhibit published by the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI). 

The Lowcountry Digital Library hosts LDHI, a project that publishes permanent exhibits on underrepresented history in the Lowcountry.

[garadinervi]

Cleveland Sellers with Robert Terrell, The River of No Return. The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC, William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1973 (University Press of Mississippi 1990 Edition here)

(related resources: Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. Papers, 1934 - 2003, Lowcountry Digital Library, Charleston, SC; Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Denmark, South Carolina, March 21, 2013 (5 video files of 5 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (108 min.) : digital, sound, color; 1 transcript (49 pages)), Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; SNCC Digital Gateway)

[garadinervi]

Roy Wilkins speaks in aftermath of Orangeburg Massacre―outtakes, (16mm, sound, b&w, 8'54"), February 25, 1968 [© University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC]

[garadinervi]

Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 8, 1968

Samuel Hammond Jr., 18 y/o, student at SCSU Delano Middleton, 17 y/o, student at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School Henry Smith, 18 y/o, student at SCSU

(image: Jack Bass – Jack Nelson, (1970), The Orangeburg Massacre, with a new introduction by Will D. Campbell, Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, (1984-1996-)2002, p. 73)

(related resource: Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. Papers, 1934 - 2003, Lowcountry Digital Library, Charleston, SC)

[raven-moreno]

This is the very first time I’ve heard about this

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The Orangeburg Massacre - February 8th, 1968.