Originally curated in 2009 as part of the Avery Research Center’s traveling exhibition program, this exhibition was reopened in 2014 in observance of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Summer and will be available until January 31, 2015. Dr. Cleveland L. Sellers was born in Denmark, South Carolina and attended Howard University. While at Howard, Sellers became a member of the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), an affiliate of SNCC (Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee). In 1964, Sellers joined SNCC’s Mississippi Summer Project (also known as Freedom Summer) to organize African-American voter registration in Mississippi. Three civil rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner were infamously murdered while working on this project. SNCC members eventually elected Sellers to be their Program Secretary in 1965. Today, Dr. Sellers is the president of Voorhees University in Denmark, South Carolina. This exhibition draws from the Cleveland Sellers archival collection at the Avery Research Center and features letters, newspapers, magazines, photographs, music, broadsides, and ephemera that document the Freedom Summer project.
Location: The Avery Center, 125 Bull Street
Charleston, SC 29424
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm, Monday – Friday until January 31, 2015
*Avery Research Center is closed daily from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.
*The display is free and open to the public.
* For more information, please visit http://avery.cofc.edu/general-exhibitions/upcoming/
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