Today, I had the amazing opportunity of interviewing the sculptor of the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Legacy memorial located near Nance Hall. On February 6, my professor took me and my classmates to to visit the creative. The clay statues that Dr. Tolulope Filani expertly created to honor the three young men who perished in that terrible 1968 incident. (Click here to listen)
The horrific Orangeburg Massacre took place in Orangeburg, South Carolina on February 8, 1968, and was part of the Civil Rights Movement. Black students from South Carolina State University and Claflin University protested racial segregation at a nearby bowling alley, sparking the start of the altercation. State highway patrolmen were among the law enforcement personnel that reacted to the protest. Three young African American men, Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, were killed when police opened fire on the protesting throng as hostilities increased. It was one of the deadliest conflicts on a college campus during the Civil Rights period, and many others were hurt in the process.
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