The River of No Return: The Autobiography of Cleveland Sellers

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that many people in the Black community of Denmark were uncomfortable with his growing activism. His mother received critical remarks about him; the President of black, local, Vorhees College was fired when the students became too active for the taste of the Board of Trustees; and his determination to continue with his activist activities caused a major rift between his father, whom he idolized, and himself. He notes that young Black college students across the South had similar confrontations with their parents as the sit-in movement grew.
The students who began the sit-in movement joined S. N. C. C. just as it was forming, putting Sellers virtually at the beginning of this organization. As a teenager he faced difficult times as the next few years unfolded, including the murder of Civil Rights workers in Meridian, MS in 1963, and the shift of emphasis within the S. N. C. C. on politics rather than integration and voter registration. He also saw the S. N. C. C. gradually ...

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