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Cleveland Sellers

Cleveland “Cleve” Sellers Jr. is an American educator and civil rights activist. During the Civil Rights Movement, Sellers helped lead 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. He served as president of Voorhees College, a historically black college in South Carolina, from 2008 to 2015.


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Born:
Nov 8, 1944 In Denmark, South Carolina, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
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First Appeared:
In the series Downing of a Flag 2021-07-12
Latest Project:
Series Downing of a Flag 2021-07-12
Known For
Poster of Downing of a Flag
Filmography
Series Downing of a Flag self 2021-07-12