Dedicated to the Proposition: Surviving Orangeburg
Thursday, January 15 2009
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Surviving orangeburg
Dr. Cleveland Sellers
Dr. Cleveland Sellers has risen through the ranks of academia and is now president of Voorhees College, a historically black school in his hometown of Denmark, S.C. But there was a time when Cleveland Sellers couldn’t even get a job. Cleveland was a prominent civil rights activist in the 1960s and was watched closely by law enforcement. When police opened fire on a group of students protesting segregation in Orangeburg, S.C., Cleveland was blamed and thrown in prison.
Decades later Cleveland was officially pardoned, but the cost to his professional and personal life can never be erased. Dr. Sellers talks with host Dick Gordon about moving on after the Orangeburg Massacre, and about his hopes for America under the leadership of Barack Obama.
Noel Paul Stookey More >>
Noel Paul Stookey, best known as Paul of the musical group Peter, Paul and Mary, will never forget performing at the March on Washington in August, 1963.
Noel knew when he got the invitation that the event was an important moment in the civil rights movement, but it wasn't until the trio got on stage at the Lincoln Memorial that he realized how huge the march was. Noel talks about the sense of hope he felt in the crowd that day - and how it reminds him of the hope inspired in many by Barack Obama.
- Read more about Noel Paul Stookey
- Listen to Noel's new song, "In These Times"
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