Outside agitator
Subtitle: the civil rights struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr
By: Adam Parker
Publisher: Hub City Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781938235450
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Race relations; Civil rights; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Voorhees College; Civil rights movements; Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Biography; History
Other titles: Civil rights struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr.
Description: "Adam Parker's incisive biography is about a proud black man who refuses to be defeated, whose tumultuous life story personifies America's continuing civil rights struggle"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Childhood in Denmark; title: Generational divide; title: Enter the students; title: Initiation by fire; title: A turning point; title: Atlantic City; title: In betrayal's wake; title: Black power; title: In charge; title: Refusing the draft; title: Under fire; title: Legal wrangling, SNCC chaos; title: The trials; title: Entering a new life; title: Off to prison; title: Gaining traction in Greensboro; title: Pardoned; title: Within the Establishment; title: Closing the circle; title: Inheritance; title: Epilogue.