Cleveland Sellers
Organization leader
1944 –
Who is Cleveland Sellers?
Cleveland Sellers, Jr., son of Cleveland and Pauline Sellers. As a young man, he was known for his involvement in the African-American Civil Rights Movement through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was the only person convicted and jailed for events at the Orangeburg Massacre, a 1968 civil rights protest in which three students were killed by state troopers. Sellers' conviction and the acquittal of the other nine defendants was believed to be motivated by racism, and Sellers received a full pardon 25 years after the incident.
Sellers is the former Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. On April 22, 2008, he was named president of Voorhees College.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1944
Denmark - Also known as
- Dr. Cleveland L. Sellers Jr
- Cleveland L. Sellers Jr
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Howard University
- Employment
- University of South Carolina
- Lived in
- South Carolina
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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