The Orangeburg Massacre is deemed first of its kind on an American campus. More than five decades ago, three young Black men were shot and killed by South Carolina state highway patrolmen amid a ...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WCSC) - It’s a painful chapter in South Carolina history that many have never been taught: the Orangeburg Massacre of Feb. 8, 1968. On that evening, law enforcement officers fatally ...

Big plans are being realized for a once-segregated bowling alley that stands dark and dusty 54 years after South Carolina state troopers fired into a crowd of Black students in the killings now known ...

But instead, the 79-year-old retired shop owner has spent the last six years poring over textbooks and dragging himself to class at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, relentless in his ...

“The Orangeburg Massacre is an important part of the university’s history, as well as that of the region and state. We look forward to the community joining us to commemorate the 50th anniversary as ...

On that cold February night, hundreds of students from South Carolina State University had gathered on campus for a third night of protests in the small town of Orangeburg. Facing them were dozens of ...

If you’re not a 60-year-old native South Carolinian, you’re unlikely to have any personal memory of the events known as the Orangeburg Massacre. You would have been 14 when it happened on Feb. 8, 1968 ...

Orangeburg, South Carolina — New York native Linwood Riddick could have spent his golden years in Summerville, South Carolina, tickling the ivories or whatever else tickled his fancy. But instead, the ...