Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943-
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1943 October 4-
Gender
- male
Occupations
Places
- Baton Rouge (La.) (Place of Birth)
- United States (Associated Country)
Languages Used
- English
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1017
Abstract
Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born 1944), an African American from Denmark, South Carolina, was a participant and leader of a variety of student, civil rights, leftist, and Pan African movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Sellers alone was indicted and convicted for inciting a riot during the Orangeburg Massacre, in which three students of South Carolina State University died and many others were wounded; Sellers was later pardoned.The majority of the collection details Cleveland L....
Dates:
1934-2003