Touré, Ahmed Sékou, 1922-1984

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1922 January 9 - 1984 March 26

Gender

Males

Occupations

Places

Faranah (Guinea) (Place of Birth)
Cleveland (Ohio) (Place of Death)
Guinea (Associated Country)

Topics

Civil service

Languages Used

French

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

Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture