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S.C. State to commemorate Orangeburg Massacre

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South Carolina State University will commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Martin Luther King Auditorium on campus.

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Survivors and families commemorate lives lost in the Orangeburg Massacre 57 years later

Family, survivors gathered Saturday at South Carolina State University to honor the three men killed and 28 students injured in the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre.

14 days ago·Columbia, United States

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Remembering the Orangeburg Massacre, 57 years later

SC State honored the three people who were killed and twenty-eight others who were injured in the massacre.

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The Times and Democrat

S.C. State to commemorate Orangeburg Massacre

South Carolina State University will commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Martin Luther King Auditorium on campus.

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Mississippi Today

On this day in 1968, S.C. troopers killed 3 students at protest

On this day in 1968, three students were shot and killed by state troopers who fired on demonstrators at the South Carolina State College campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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Holy City Sinner

Bobby Eaddy, The Orangeburg Massacre of 1968 and what he left behind

Bobby Eaddy, one of the survivors of the February 8. 1968 Orangeburg Massacre, was just 17 years old when he was shot by state troopers at a 1968 Civil Rights protest. On the evening of February 8, 1968, around 200 protestors (including Eaddy, who was a freshman at the time) gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University to protest the continued segregation of the local bowling alley. That night, South Carolina Highway Patrol officers…

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ABC Columbia

57 years later - SC State commemorates Orangeburg Massacre - ABC Columbia

Photo Courtesy: SC State University ORANGEBURG, SC (WOLO) — February 8th marks the 57th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State University. The ceremony took place at the Martin Luther King Auditorium on campus. On February 8th, 1968, Henry Smith, Samuel Hammond, and Delano Middleton were killed when police opened fire on some 200 unarmed Black students who were demonstrating in the name of integrating a local bowling alle…

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