On the night of February 8, 1968, a deeply rooted struggle against racial segregation in Orangeburg, South Carolina, culminated in a tragic outburst of violence that claimed the life of 18-year-old Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr., a Black male student at South Carolina State College. The events of that evening, which would become known as the Orangeburg Massacre, unfolded against a backdrop of simmering tensions over the refusal of a local bowling alley, All-Star Bowling Lanes, to desegregate.
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