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THE ORANGEBURG
MASSACRE
On February 8, 1968, after
three nights of escalating
racial tension over efforts
by S.C. State College
students and others to
desegregate the All Star
Bowling Lanes, 3 students
died and 27 others were
wounded on this campus.
S.C. Highway Patrolmen
fired on a crowd here,
killing Samuel Hammond Jr.,
Delano Middleton, and Henry
Smith. This tradegy was the
first of its kind on any
American college campus.
ERECTED BY SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 2000
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