Orangeburg Massacre

The Orangeburg massacre is the most common name given to an incident on February 8, 1968, in which nine South Carolina Highway Patrol officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fired into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against segregation at a bowling alley near the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically black college. Three men were killed and twenty-eight persons were injured; most victims were shot in the back and in the soles in their feet(Cian). One of the injured was a pregnant woman named Elizabeth Stalvey. Elizabeth Stalvey had a miscarriage a week later due to the beating by the police. It was the first such unrest on a university campus resulting in deaths of protesters.

The event pre-dated the 1970 Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings, in which the National Guard at Kent State, and police and state highway patrol at Jackson State killed student protesters demonstrating against the United States invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.