Family members, friends, and survivors of the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre gathered at South Carolina State University on Saturday to honor the lives lost 57 years ago during a campus protest.
Among the survivors was Thomas Kennerly, who recalled the harrowing moment when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers opened fire on students protesting against racial segregation and discrimination in Orangeburg.
“Am I going to be killed?” Kennerly remembered thinking, as fear gripped him and other students amid the gunfire.