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Orangeburg massacre
Orangeburg South Carolina (37 miles southeast of Columbia SC)
On a Tuesday February 5th 1968, South Carolina State University students and local high school students attempted to enter All Star Bowling alley (the only bowling alley in town) which prohibited "black" people to enter its facility so the students that came to bowl protested at the door until they were forced away by the police.
After this, the students went back to South Carolina State campus and organized a protest. The protest went on from that tuesday to thursday and grew in size each day.
On thursday February 8th at night, the protesters were confronted by armed police that attempted to force them to disperse their PEACEFUL protest. The students instead shouted at the police and threw trash at them. 9 of the police opened fire on them. Two South Carolina State University students and one high school student were killed, their names were Samuel Hammond, Henry Smith and Delano Middleton (who was an all state basketball player).
Twenty-Eight other students were shot, most of them in the back.
After the shooting, the local paper and the police officers lied stating that the students were throwing bricks, firebombs and started shooting. No evidence was ever found to support any of these claims.
The next day the governor of the state Robert Evander Mcnair blamed "outside black power agitators" for the shootings. Those allegations were later proved false.
After the shooting, the federal government (which was under Lyndon Johnson) brought charges against the 9 officers involved. This was the first federal trial of police officers for using excessive force. All 9 were acquitted.
Two years later Cleveland Sellers was convicted of a charge of starting a riot for what happened on tuesday night at the bowling alley. He served 7 months in the state prison.
Orangeburg massacre
Orangeburg South Carolina (37 miles southeast of Columbia SC)
On a Tuesday February 5th 1968, South Carolina State University students and local high school students attempted to enter All Star Bowling alley (the only bowling alley in town) which prohibited "black" people to enter its facility so the students that came to bowl protested at the door until they were forced away by the police.
After this, the students went back to South Carolina State campus and organized a protest. The protest went on from that tuesday to thursday and grew in size each day.
On thursday February 8th at night, the protesters were confronted by armed police that attempted to force them to disperse their PEACEFUL protest. The students instead shouted at the police and threw trash at them. 9 of the police opened fire on them. Two South Carolina State University students and one high school student were killed, their names were Samuel Hammond, Henry Smith and Delano Middleton (who was an all state basketball player).
Twenty-Eight other students were shot, most of them in the back.
After the shooting, the local paper and the police officers lied stating that the students were throwing bricks, firebombs and started shooting. No evidence was ever found to support any of these claims.
The next day the governor of the state Robert Evander Mcnair blamed "outside black power agitators" for the shootings. Those allegations were later proved false.
After the shooting, the federal government (which was under Lyndon Johnson) brought charges against the 9 officers involved. This was the first federal trial of police officers for using excessive force. All 9 were acquitted.
Two years later Cleveland Sellers was convicted of a charge of starting a riot for what happened on tuesday night at the bowling alley. He served 7 months in the state prison.
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