Jesse Jackson for President Committee memorandum from Benjamin R. Polote, National Chairman, to "Fund Raisers" regarding the National Debate fund raisers.
Photocopy of handwritten correspondence from Shahala Assuen (Nate Howell) to the All African People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee applying to be a member of the party.
A press release from the national office of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America describing the events of the Orangeburg Massacre and its misrepresentation in the media. This release was to be distributed to local chapters of the DuBois Clubs to educate its members on the events of the Orangeburg Massacre, to suggest ways for them to get involved in promoting awareness, and to advocate for mass mobilization against racial repression.
Fact sheet written in the early 1970s relating the events leading up to and including the Orangeburg Massacre and the actions of the state of South Carolina since the incident. Includes information compiled regarding "Brother" Cleveland Sellers' trial and indictment.
Western Union Telegram sent by members of the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft relating the shared struggle of the Freedom Movement and the Anti-war movement. The Kentucky Conference was planned to occur on February 11, 1968 and was expected to attract as many as 500 people.
A fact sheet released by Atlanta University relating the events of the Orangeburg Massacre and advocating dressing in black on February 15th, 1968 to commemorate the lives of the three men slain on the day of their funerals.
Photograph of Cleveland Sellers (second from left), Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (fourth from left) and four African American men taken outside of a South Carolina Department of Corrections facility possibly following Sellers' release from prison in the early 1970s. Two men are gesturing with a raised fist, possibly related to the Black Power movement.
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