Orangeburg Massacre

Date: February 8, 1968 • Location: Orangeburg, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1968.

Law enforcement officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina (pictured), fired into a crowd of college students who were protesting segregation, killing three and injuring twenty-seven others.

Orangeburg is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population of the city was 13,964 according to the 2020 census. The city is located 37 miles southeast of Columbia, on the north fork of the Edisto River.