We ve always tended to overstate America s embrace of dissent, as if those police dogs, fire hose blasts and tear gas cannisters aimed at protesters — and yes, even bullets —
\“O\” is for Orangeburg Massacre (February 8, 1968). On the night of February 8, 1968, police gunfire left three young men dying and twenty-seven wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg.