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In another statement released Friday, Cleveland L. Sellars, a first-year student at the School of Education, announced that his trial on charges of conspiracy, inciting to riot, and riot has been set for today in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
The charges stem from the 1968 uprisings at South Carolina State College, which resulted in the deaths of four blacks in what was alleged by blacks to be murder by police-the so-called "Orangeburg Massacre."
Sellars, former secretary of SNCC, said that he was told of the new trial date last Tuesday.
"The fact that the trial has been set for Jan, 12, 1970, the same date as the trial of black students at Harvard, is no accident," Sellars said Friday. "My commitment to the effort of black students at Harvard to get the 20 per cent of black construction workers was...
"It has become apparent to me and should also be apparent to you that Harvard University is the very essence of white western civilization," Sellars said in a statement to OBU. "The present status quo will not concede to your demands until they understand that your struggle is part of...