Sellers sworn in as Voorhees president

Civil rights activist and educator Cleveland Sellers, who survived a deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, was formally sworn in as the eighth president of Voorhees College.
   
Sellers gave his inaugural address Thursday at the college in his hometown of Denmark. His tenure began in June.
   
He said he wants to make the historically black college more competitive and increase enrollment.
   
Sellers was a civil rights demonstrator at the former South Carolina State College in nearby Orangeburg, when three students were gunned down and 27 others wounded by state troopers. He was the only person convicted from the incident but was pardoned decades later.
   
He previously led the University of South Carolina’s African American Studies Program.