Legal document entitled, "In the State of South Carolina In The Supreme Court, Appeal From Orangeburg County, Honorable John Grimball, Presiding Judge, The State, Respondent, against Cleveland Louis Sellers, Jr., Appellant, Transcript of Record." Attorneys for the appellant were Fred Henderson Moore and Howard Moore, Jr. Attorneys for the Respondent were Julian S. Wolfe, Daniel R. McLeod, and J.C. Coleman.
Legal document entitled, "In the State of South Carolina In the Supreme Court, Appeal from Orangeburg County Honorable John Grimball, Presiding Judge, No. 7577, The State, Respondent, against, Cleveland Sellers, Jr., Appellant, Brief for the Appellant, In Forma Pauperis."
Legal document entitled, "In the State of South Carolina In The Supreme Court, Appeal From Orangeburg County, Honorable John Grimball, Presiding Judge, The State, Respondent, against Cleveland Louis Sellers, Jr., Appellant, Transcript of Record." Attorneys for the appellant were Fred Henderson Moore and Howard Moore, Jr. Attorneys for the Respondent were Julian S. Wolfe, Daniel R. McLeod, and J.C. Coleman.
Correspondence from E. W. Brice and Howard Jordan, Co-Chairman of the Program Committee, of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, regarding the Palmetto State Teachers Association.
Legal document entitled, "In the State of South Carolina In The Supreme Court, Appeal From Orangeburg County, Honorable John Grimball, Presiding Judge, The State, Respondent, against Cleveland Louis Sellers, Jr., Appellant, Transcript of Record." Attorneys for the appellant were Fred Henderson Moore and Howard Moore, Jr. Attorneys for the Respondent were Julian S. Wolfe, Daniel R. McLeod, and J.C. Coleman.
Legal document entitled, "In the State of South Carolina In The Supreme Court, Appeal From Orangeburg County, Honorable John Grimball, Presiding Judge, The State, Respondent, against Cleveland Louis Sellers, Jr., Appellant, Transcript of Record." Attorneys for the appellant were Fred Henderson Moore and Howard Moore, Jr. Attorneys for the Respondent were Julian S. Wolfe, Daniel R. McLeod, and J.C. Coleman.
Statement submitted by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to the Platform Committee of the National Democratic Convention on Thursday morning, July 7, 1960 in Los Angeles, California.
Correspondence from Jesse Taylor of the South Carolina Black Voting Rights Campaign to Delbert Woods, President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, regarding the South Carolina State Senate. Enclosed Resolution for the South Carolina Black Voting Rights Campaign as it pertains to the South Carolina State Senate.
Correspondence from Bernice Robinson to Marquerite Howie, "Board of Directions" for the S.C. Commission for Farm Workers, regarding the proposal and budget submitted on May 26, 1972.
Correspondence from Emma S. Dawkins, Secretary for the South Carolina State College, to the Office of the Business Manager regarding Eugene C. Hunt state aid for postgraduate education.
Correspondence from Jack Bass, Department of English at South Carolina State College, to Septima P. Clark thanking Clark for a recent speaking engagement and and a potential interview.
Oral history interview of Theodore Adams regarding his efforts in desegregating Orangeburg High School in 1964. Interview was completed for the Somebody Had To Do It project initiated by the African American Education and Research Organization
The Mouzon Plat Book surveys lands held by various individuals and families in Craven County [now in parts of Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties], Colleton County and Berkeley County in South Carolina. Plats are drawn in pencil and ink. Book includes an index at the beginning and at the end are two pages of accounts and also lands to be resurveyed for the estate of Henry Mouzon Jr.
Correspondence from Cleveland Sellers to "Lerone" regarding the Orangeburg Massacre and completion of Doctoral requirements at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Correspondence from Willie E. Jeffries, Head Football Coach for South Carolina State College, to Aaron Purdie regarding Cleveland Sellers' recommendation for the recipient to join the South Carolina State Coaching staff.
Liberation News Service report on the Orangeburg Massacre entitled, "Three Killed, Fifty Injured in South Carolina Shootings: Black Students are Victims to Trigger Happy White Cops."
Factsheet giving "a complete and up-to-date coverage of the events and actions of the State of South Carolina since the week of events leading up to" the Orangeburg Massacre.
California Artists Radio Theatre News Release for "the 'forgotten' story of the shooting of black college students by white highway patrolmen and South Carolina's attempt to hide the truth from the nation," a new radio production entitled, "The Orangeburg Massacre," starring David Carradine, Blair Underwood, and James Whitmore.
Resolution written by the Student Legislative Council of the University of California at Los Angeles regarding the Orangeburg Massacre, condemning "the racist and violent attack of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and the National Guard, upon the students of the South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, South Carolina."
Charles W. Smith discusses growing up, his adult professional life as a city planner and realtor, his personal life and his work as an activist for LGBTQ rights. His family lived in Orangeburg, Beaufort, Florence and Charleston and he was educated at the College of Charleston and Clemson University, moving to Miami in 1984. His early family life was overshadowed by the illness and death of an older brother. Realizing he was gay, he avoided being bullied in school by staying closeted. In 1987 in Miami Beach, FL, he met Carlos Guillermo Rodriguez. Soon after, Smith told his family he was gay and Rodriguez tested HIV positive. He wanted Smith to leave him, but Smith refused; their families in South Carolina and Colombia, South America accepted them. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Miami, with which Smith was affiliated as a senior warden, was also accepting and affirming. After his lover’s death in 1995, Smith, who had run for political office, but lost, moved to Charleston, SC in 1996, finding a changed city, which he attributes to Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. We Are Family, a youth-oriented LGBTQ organization had been founded by Thomas Myers and Smith stayed, founding a real estate firm catering to LGBTQ clients. There were a number of bars in town he remembers frequenting; he affiliated with St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, a historically African American congregation opened up to white congregants, many of whom were LGBTQ. Smith and others, mostly non natives, such as Linda Ketner, Jim and Warren Redman-Gress, Carolyn Kirk, Lynne Moldenhauer and Linda G. William, helped found Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA). They publicly confronted a newspaper ad attacking LGBTQ people. This, Smith believes, began the process of removing shame and empowering the LGBTQ community. Smith also describes the “thousand year rainfall event” of 2015 and his marriage to Rob Suli that year, in a Columbia, SC hospital to ensure their rights were respected in the arena of health care. He notes the importance of the internet to LGBTQ people in finding community. He mentions Lowcountry Gay and Lesbian Alliance (LGLA), the lives of Jay Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson in Miami, and two gay men, who wintered in Charleston, SC. They, according to Smith, participated in the gay purges of US State Department employees in the 1940s and ‘50s. He also mentions the ownership of gay bars in Charleston, SC and the conflict over LGBTQ rights that has split the local Episcopal Diocese.
Holiday Inn registration form for the South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP's 47th Annual State Convention held from October 8 to 10, 1987.
Correspondence from Cleveland Sellers to Director of Personnel for the South Carolina State College serving as a letter of application for the position of Research Assistant.
Fax transmission from Frank Beacham to The State Newspaper discussing a disagreement with with an Associated Press writer named Kent Krell regarding the truth surrounding the Orangeburg Massacre.
Document entitled, "Bios of Key Cast and Personnel: The Orangeburg Massacre," collated for a potential production, including short biographies of David Carradine, Blair Underwood, James Whitmore, Parley Baer, and others.
Correspondence from Matthew J. Perry to Arthur Rose regarding entering the recipient's child in the Ellis Avenue Elementary School in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
State of South Carolina County of Orangeburg in the Court of Common Pleas Order for Cleveland Louis Sellers, Applicant, Vs. Sheriff of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Vance L. Boone, Respondent.
Correspondence from Robert E. Perdue, Acting Chairman for South Carolina State College, to Septima P. Clark regarding the future of Clark's personal papers.
A report about the ways the Sunlight Club impacts the Orangeburg, South Carolina community, including through civic, social and recreational, educational and cultural, charitable, and moral and religious activities. The report is preceded by a letter from Dr. N.P. Parler and highlights events.
A portion of the annual per capita tax report from the Sunlight CLub submitted to the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. It lists the names and addresses of all members at the time.
