04780cgdaa22006737i 4500 18889646 20250607065900.6 cr|||||||||||| 150728s2013 dcu108 o v|eng 18889646 7 cbc orignew u ncip 20 y-folklife kste 2015-04-?? masmit 2019-09-19 masmit 2019-11-22 masmit 2020-02-20 2015669180 (DLC) afc2010039_crhp0081 DLC eng dacs DLC DLC n-us-ms n-us-dc n-us-al AFC 2010/039: 0081 Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- interviewee. Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Denmark, South Carolina, 2013 March 21. 2013. 5 video files of 5 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (108 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (49 pages). two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact. Recorded in Denmark, South Carolina, on March 21, 2013. Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Denmark, and he describes the group's activities. He discusses his first impressions of Howard University, where he joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG). He shares memories of the March on Washington and the role of students in organizing it, his involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and his role in the Mississippi Freedom Project. He also describes the goals of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the tensions that developed within SNCC in the late 1960s. Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.). Dr. Cleveland Sellers was a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was arrested after the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968. He later became a professor of African American studies at the University of South Carolina and president of Voorhees College. The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement. In English. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- Interviews. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Mississippi Freedom Project. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council. Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) African American civil rights workers Interviews. Civil rights movements Alabama. Civil rights movements Maryland Cambridge. Civil rights movements Mississippi. Civil rights movements United States. Filmed Interviews. lcgft Interviews. lcgft Oral histories. lcgft Video recordings. lcgft Dittmer, John, 1939- interviewer. Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) Denmark (S.C.), event place. Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0081 (DLC) 2012655221 Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home afc2010039_crhp0081_mv06 afc2010039 Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Denmark, South Carolina, 2013 March 21 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0081 afc2010039_crhp0081_Sellers_transcript afc2010039text 1 transcript AFCCRHP Electronic Resource