Cleveland Sellers
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title:
Cleveland Sellers
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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 a
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American educator and activist (born 1944)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Sellers
date created:
2007-03-25T00:12:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:38:49Z
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