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 The creators demand police and troops to be withdrawn from Orangeburg and that all charges against demonstrators be dropped.
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.
Photograph of Cleveland Sellers and associate Willie Ricks standing in a yard in front of a home. May have been taken in the 1970s upon Sellers' release from prison.
Photograph of Cleveland Sellers and sizable group of African American associates present at a forum in front of a black audience. Sellers sits in front of a microphone. A large poster of Malcolm X is posted on the wall behind Sellers as well as a poster featuring two black children which reads "Land is the Basis of All Power." May be related to the Black Power movement.
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.
