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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Big plans are being realized for a once-segregated bowling alley that stands dark and dusty 54 years after state troopers fired into a crowd of Black students in the killings now known as the "Orangeburg Massacre.”
After years of neglect, the National Park Service is helping a non-profit group renovate the All-Star Bowling Lanes, remaking it into a fully functional bowling alley with a civil rights theme.
South Carolina troopers fired into the crowd on the outskirts of the historically Black campus of South Carolina State University on Feb. 8, 1968, killing three and wounding another 28. But the shooting remains relatively unknown outside the state. Compared with the four students killed at Kent State two years later, it's a footnote in national narratives about 1960s protests.
Planners of the future Orangeburg All-Star Justice Center hope their renovation project will restore the space to the nation's memories of the civil rights movement.
Continued: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...ore-bowling-alley-crux-of-orangeburg-massacre
I read up on this a few years back and wondered why it hadn't been a bigger issue recently. Figured it would be a good historical site.
After years of neglect, the National Park Service is helping a non-profit group renovate the All-Star Bowling Lanes, remaking it into a fully functional bowling alley with a civil rights theme.
South Carolina troopers fired into the crowd on the outskirts of the historically Black campus of South Carolina State University on Feb. 8, 1968, killing three and wounding another 28. But the shooting remains relatively unknown outside the state. Compared with the four students killed at Kent State two years later, it's a footnote in national narratives about 1960s protests.
Planners of the future Orangeburg All-Star Justice Center hope their renovation project will restore the space to the nation's memories of the civil rights movement.
Continued: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...ore-bowling-alley-crux-of-orangeburg-massacre
I read up on this a few years back and wondered why it hadn't been a bigger issue recently. Figured it would be a good historical site.
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