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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1968)
Orangeburg Riots Negro Leaders Decree White Store Boycott ORANGE. S.C. (CPS)—While National Guardsmen, bayonets fixed on their rifles, blocked entry to South Carolina State College nearby, the black bour geoisie of this divided town met at a church Sunday to consider how they would react to Thurs day’s slaying of three black stu dents. The black bourgeoisie, led by local and state NAACP officials, drew up a long list of demands and then voted to back them with a boycott of white stores. Their objectives including having the National guard leave town, getting Black people in government posts at all levels, integrating the county hospi tal. reforming the local news me dia. and setting up a commu nity relations task force. Yet even as the group met re minders of Thursday were still much in evidence. In addition to tne National Guard detachment at the S.C. State campus, National Guard forces are posted at various points around the city. A 5 am. to 6 a.m. curfew is in force. A state of emergency ex ists for the entire county. And the Holiday Inn parking lot is jammed with state police cards. In addition, South Carolina State is closing down and neighboring Claflin, like S.C. State a predom inantly Black school, is all but shut down. Tension has been building be tween the South Carolina State students and white people in Orangeburg for some time. It reached a new pitch last Tues day. however, when a large group of the students attempted to integrate a bowling alley in a downtown shopping center. Their efforts left to a clash be tween police and students and the arrest of 17 demonstrators. On Thursday the state police, backed by detachments of the *00 National Guardsmen who were called up after Tuesday’s incident, blocked off the front of the campus to keep students from going downtown. A group of students—estimates of the Boot Clamps Style EUGENE <A*> _ The City of Eugene has collected $3,420 in fines from motorists whose cars have been immobilized in re cent months by a spiked boot clamped to a wheel. The boot cost $130. It is attached to cars whose owners persistently fail to pay parking fines. / Optometrst Dr. Robert J. Williamson • Fashion Eyewear • Eye Examination • Contact Lenses “Just Say Charge It” 344-5371 Standard Optical 820 Willamette number range from 75 to 200— gathered near the front entrance to the college. After some of them had made a bonfire be side the highway that runs in front of the campus, state troop ers moved forward to give city firemen a chance to extinguish the blaze. Shortly thereafter, one of the troopers was hit in the face by a piece of wood thrown by a student. After he was carried off, a group of the troopers, who had lined up along an em bankment beside the highway, opened fire on the assembled students. When the troopers opened fire, the students ran for cov er. Some of them dropped to the ground, many, including some of the wounded, made it to the dorms. Three students were slain. Only one arrest has been made so far. Cleveland Sellers, Or angeburg representative of the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinat ing Committee (SNCC), was taken in after the Thursday in cldent. He was charged with in citing to riot and arson and is now being held in the state I -- penitentiary in Columbia on $15,000 bond. State officials, including (lov. Robert E. Muenair, have said that "Black Bovver militants” were responsible for Thursday's shooting and that Sellers is the principle trouble maker. According to two young mem bers of the S.C. State faculty, however. Sellers had a very lim ited following on campus. They also said that relationships were not very good between SNCC and the Black Awareness Co • ordinating Committee, S.C. State’s small Black militant or ganization. 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