Cleveland Sellers papers, 1960-2005 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
Abstract:
Cleveland Sellers is a veteran civil rights activist who helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The Cleveland Sellers Papers consist of SNCC and other Civil Rights-era publications and correspondence, including items from the Holly Springs COFO office and the Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11286

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains assorted printed materials, publications, correspondence, and clippings related to the activities of SNCC and its affiliates during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Materials have been sorted into series: Publications, Correspondence, Holly Springs Project, Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee, Statements/Press Releases/Flyers, and Subject Files.

Much of the material is ephemeral and scattered; some authors are unknown. There are some items that have evidence of water damage or mold and are in poor physical condition.

Biographical / historical:

Cleveland Sellers (1944- ) is a civil rights activist who helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He formally joined SNCC in 1963, leading voter registration drives. He served as head of the Holly Springs COFO office during 1964's Mississippi Freedom Summer, and participated in the 1966 March Across Mississippi. Sellers was arrested in 1968 in the aftermath of the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State University; he was the only person convicted and served 7 months in jail. (He later received a full pardon.)

Sellers earned an MA in education from Harvard University in 1970 and an Ed.D. in History from University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1987. He served as president of Voorhees College from 2008-2015.

Acquisition information:
The Cleveland Sellers Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2016.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, Aug. 2016

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2016-0215

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Collection is open for research.

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[Identification of item], Cleveland Sellers Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.