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 The Kent States you don't know about;; 

its place in Civil Rights history h/t to Mr. Olin 

The Orangeburg Massacre at 50: Historian tells story of fateful days, nights in February 1968

One-half century ago on the night of Feb. 8, 1968, South Carolina Highway Patrolmen fired their weapons into a crowd of black students protesting on the front of the campus

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Also, on the way down to Beaufort, I was on a somewhat rural road and saw to signs for these kind of back water roads…..Emancipation Plantation Road and Robert Smalls Way (he is the escaped slave who stole a Confederate boat and delivered it to the Union blockading ships in Charleston harbor.

 In Photos: Orangeburg 1968

In Photos: Orangeburg 1968 On Feb. 6, 1968, South Carolina State College students attempted to bowl at Orangeburg’s only bowling alley, the...

Orangeburg Massacre: South Carolina State, 1968

Orangeburg Massacre: South Carolina State, 1968

Orangeburg Massacre: South Carolina State, 1968

Sellers, Cleveland (1944- ) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

Sellers, Cleveland (1944- ) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

Sellers, Cleveland (1944- ) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

The Kent States you don't know about

"For those who lived through the time, the reason for the lack of coverage on the other campus shootings is pretty simple: "Kent State was four white students in Ohio," said Gene Young, a former Jackson State professor, when asked by NPR why the tragedies at Jackson State and South Carolina State aren't as prominent in the nation's memory.

"Jackson State and Orangeburg were black colleges in the South," Young continued. "Two black students on a black college campus in Mississippi that had the history of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. It was just another day of business as usual, racist law enforcement officials victimizing black people in Mississippi."

The Kent States you don't know about

The Kent States you don't know about Breeanna Hare, CNN When the National Guard shot four students at Kent State on May 4, 1970, it triggered national outcry. But Kent ...

To the Archives! Remembering the Orangeburg Massacre and its place in Civil Rights history

To the Archives! Remembering the Orangeburg Massacre and its place in Ci... Caitlin Byrd cb...@postandcourier.com They died as martyrs.