Today in History

February 08, 1968
Racial Violence
Following protests against a whites-only bowling alley, three black students at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg are killed in clashes with police. Gov. Robert McNair declares a state of emergency and puts the town under a nighttime curfew while 600 National Guard troops try to maintain order. McNair said the state's "reputation for racial harmony had been blemished."



Today's Feature History Article

Civil Wrongs

In a painstaking study of 1960s Atlanta, Kevin Kruse takes suburban whites to task

Down In Mississippi

The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement




 



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