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| Creator: | Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- |
| Title: | Oral history interview with Cleveland Sellers (part 2) |
| Date: | 1989 May 10 |
| Description: | Sellers primarily details the activities of SNCC in Mississippi and Alabama from 1963 through 1967. He describes various projects and initiatives, including Freedom Democratic Party, Mississippi Freedom Party, marches with Martin Luther King, Jr., and discusses the murder of Sammy Young. He also describes SNCC philosophy and strategy, specifically the influx and exodus of members, the shift from a civil rights organization to a human rights organization, the Black Panther Party and "black power," and the influence and roles of other organizations and leaders, including King and Malcolm X. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Oral histories | Transcripts |
| Subjects: | Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- | African American civil rights workers | Civil rights workers--United States | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | Civil rights demonstrations--United States | Civil rights movements--United States | Black Panther Party | Black power--United States | Greensboro (N.C.) | Guilford County (N.C.) |
| Collection: | Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles |
| Institution: | University of North Carolina at Greensboro's University Libraries |
| Contributors: | University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries | Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.) | Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro | Greensboro Voices Collection (University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries) |
| Online Publisher: | Greensboro, N.C. : University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 2006 |
| Original Material: | Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of online collection: Greensboro Voices. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/civrights/detail-iv.asp?iv=122 |
