Photograph of Cleveland Sellers in 1973 possibly taken outside of prison following Sellers' release. Sellers is sitting under a tree possibly wearing prison garb.
Photograph of Cleveland Sellers possibly wearing blue prison garb. Most likely taken in the early 1970s. Inscription on back reads: "To Sis Gwen & Sis Nozisy(?) With Love and Hope, Cleve. May 1973."
Poem written in the aftermath of the Orangeburg Massacre contrasting the event to the 1970 Kent State shootings. The author describes the number of casualties and the death of Henry Smith.
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.
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 (middle), Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (far left, red jacket) and five others taken outside of a facility of the South Carolina Department of Corrections possibly taken following his release from prison in the early 1970s. Sellers is standing next to a woman who is believed to be his wife.
Photograph of Cleveland Sellers with Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture outside of a South Carolina Department of Corrections facility possibly taken following Sellers' release from prison in the early 1970s.
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 The creators demand police and troops to be withdrawn from Orangeburg and that all charges against demonstrators be dropped.
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