Box 2

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Includes Sellers and his mother regarding family and school matters; with later letters of Seller during his incarceration in jail for draft resistance, with thoughts on race relations in America; two letters from Bro John regarding racial politics in South Carolina, with discussion of United Citizen's Party, planned for South Carolina. With related broadside; and a mention of William Saunders.

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Letters from attorney Howard Moore mostly regarding Sellers' legal problems from Orangeburg Massacre. A few letters from Sellers regarding his personal life, and mentions of Stokely Carmichael. With letters from his mother, peers, friends and those actively involved in supporting him and his political causes.

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Includes letters from various supporters and those grateful to Sellers; with letters regarding the Orangeburg Massacre experience and his pardon. Letters from Julian Bond and writer Tom Dent; with materials regarding Sellers' Freedom of Information request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding its files on him.

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Regarding education, grades, degrees, and seeking employment. School materials from Voorhees High School, Howard University, Harvard University, Shaw University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and others. With letters to Ivanhoe Donaldson regarding seeking position in in Washington, D.C. under Mayor Marion Berry.

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Regarding work in Greensboro, North Carolina housing authority, education at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, applications for employment at various colleges, letters of recommendation for and by Sellers; with mentions of other professional programs and topics.

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With other work related forms and publications.

Collection Overview From the Collection: The majority of the collection details Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr.'s role in a variety of student, civil rights, leftist, and Pan African movements in the 1960s and 1970s; other materials documenting his personal, academic, and professional life. Many of the materials are in photocopy form, the originals, severely water and mold damaged, having been removed. A small series of personal papers include childhood magazine covers, papers regarding his draft resistance case (1967-1971); a...

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Regarding various activities in Greensboro and in NC.

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Includes miscellaneous lists of names.