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“50 years and it still gets to me” – Cooke remembers Orangeburg Massacre

By Judith Brown | February 8, 2018 |

Laurens, SC – The front artwork on the 1968 South Carolina State yearbook showed a collection of yearbook covers from the previous 14 years, giving little indication to the tragedy represented on the first pages. There on an “In Memorium” page were pictured the three young men who died 50 years ago. Delano Middleton, Samuel Hammonds and…