Cleveland Sellers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Civil rights campaigner
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1944
Place of Birth: Denmark, South Carolina, United States
Profession: civil rights advocate
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Cleveland Sellers
- Cleveland Sellers, Jr.
- (born November 8, 1944) is an American educator and veteran civil rights activist. During the Civil Rights Movement, Sellers helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
- He was the only person convicted and jailed for events at the Orangeburg Massacre, a 1968 civil rights protest in which three students were killed by state troopers.
- Sellers' conviction and the acquittal of the other nine defendants was believed to be motivated by racism, and Sellers received a full pardon 25 years after the incident. Sellers is the former Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.
- He served as president of Voorhees College, a historically black college in South Carolina, from 2008 to 2015.
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