Orangeburg, South Carolina — February 8, 1968 American history remembers Kent State. It remembers the photograph, the outrage, the arguments that followed. What it rarely remembers is that two years earlier, in a small Southern town, police opened fire on unarmed Black students who were trying to leave. The event is known as the Orangeburg Massacre , though for decades it barely registered as a massacre at all. By 1968, segregation was illegal. The Civil Rights Act had been l