Western Union telegram pledging support from student groups and employees in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The groups write that they intend to stage demonstrations to increase awareness about the events in Orangeburg.
Resolution from the Student Legislative Council of the University of California at Los Angeles condemning the attack of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) and the National Guard upon students in Orangeburg. The Council demands that the perpetrators of violence at Orangeburg be brought to court to "answer for their crimes."
Western Union telegram from "fifty outraged citizens at Franconia NH" demanding the relase of Cleveland Sellers from prison and denouncing the acts of brutality perpetuated against students during the Orangeburg Massacre.
Western Union telegram denouncing Orangeburg Massacre as an act of genocide. The creators demand police and troops to be withdrawn from Orangeburg and that all charges against demonstrators be dropped.
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.
Photograph of Cleveland Sellers in 1973 possibly taken outside of prison following Sellers' release. Sellers is sitting under a tree possibly wearing prison garb.
Flyer created and distributed by African American students from the Atlanta University Center advertising a march to take place in support of the South Carolina State College student body. The students recommend sending assistance to the Orangeburg Student Defense Fund housed at Spelman College in Atlanta.
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