The Orangeburg Massacre
- ISBN-10
- 0865545529
- ISBN-13
- 9780865545526
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sweet & Maxwell
- Authors
- Jack Nelson, Jack Bass
Description
An account of the night of February 8, 1968 when a group of young people were protesting on the campus of South Carolina State College and officers of the law opened fire killing three young men.
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