On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg.
Three young black men�Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith�were killed, and twenty-seven other protestors were injured.
Preceding the infamous events at Kent State University by more than two years, the Orangeburg Massacre, as it came to be known, was one of .
University Of South Carolina Press Blood & bone: truth and reconciliation in a southern town, hardcover/jack shuler
