But did you feel like it was hard gaining SNCCs trust? It was painful. More:A man escaped slavery by mailing himself to freedom. It reminds me of the time Chuck McDew and I visited my brother and his wife in a small town near Knoxville, Tenn. McDew, an African American born in Massillon, Ohio, was fascinated by the jobs being held . Bob Zellner is known for Son of the South (2020), Breath of Freedom (2014) and Moyers & Company (2012). I'm glad you're here. She was the wife of the late Elmer C. Palmer and the late Lester C. Zellner. During the summer of 2013, Zellner was arrested with North Carolina Forward Together Movement for protesting voter suppression and continued to work closely with North Carolinas Moral Mondays Movement.[2]. We knew that at some point we'd have to make a decision. Well, what was going through my mind at that time of meeting Rosa Parks and getting to know her and Reverend Abernathy. While teaching in the Hamptons, Bob worked with the Shinnecock Nation on a campaign to stop the bulldozing of ancestral burial grounds for an upscale housing sub-division in Southampton, New York. He was convicted and served time on the Georgia chain gang. Thats what could get you killed. The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: a White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. My father was disowned by his father and his mother and his brothers never spoke to him again in his whole life. The fight has not ended for Zellner and his wife, Pamela, who still invest in their community. Those with a casual knowledge of the movement may be misled by the stereotypes of names and geographies to assume that Zellner is the Northern Jew and McDew a Black Southerner. The couple subsequently moved to New Orleans to work with the Southern Conference Educational Fund. That's was very hard to see. Bob Zellner, a trailblazing civil rights activist, is the grandson of an Alabama Klansman. Tell me a little bit about your grandfather. By Julia Cheng. John Seigenthaler had been beaten in the head with a pipe and kicked her under a car for dead. At the Freedom Rides Museum: SNCC field secretary Bob Zellner meets with the Forwards Robin Washington in front of the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. We didn't know they were racist or what that meant. We need people to know that the Civil Rights Movement was led mainly by strong women, not these men that are held up in history as the leaders of the movement. John Robert Zellner was born on April 5, 1939 in Jay, Florida and grew up in small towns throughout south Alabama. Continuing his life-long habit of returning from time to time for graduate studies, he completed most of the classwork for a Ph.D. in history, Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana between 1991-1994. This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Civil Rights activist Bob Zellner to share his fight with Pensacola, Pensacola business leaders band together to fight systemic injustice, Elizabeth Eckford in Pensacola to share how she braved hate as one of the Little Rock Nine. Thats sad and infuriating. 0 likes. It's like, yeah-. He was definitely checking me out. After working briefly in Atlanta, Zellner went to McComb, Mississippi, with Bob Moses and Chuck McDew for a SNCC planning session. That brought back a lot of emotion to me. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Director and Inspiration: Bob Zellner autographs his book, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, while chatting with Barry Alexander Brown, the director of Son of the South, a film executive produced by Spike Lee about Zellners work in the Civil Rights Movement. So you went to Atlanta to SNCC, right? Winner of the 2009 Lillian Smith Book Award Even forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. 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I liked him because he was the perfect good ole white boy, a teetotal white country boy, with the accent and the background of the real rural South. Lives in Wilson, North Carolina. [Revolution in the Air Max Elbaum page 200], Deep South Education and Research Associates, Building Revolution in the South: The Southern Conference Educational Fund and the New Communist Movement, 1968-1981 A Senior Thesis Submitted to The Faculty of the Department of History In Candidacy for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in History, https://keywiki.org/index.php?title=Bob_Zellner&oldid=512831, GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later. And dont worry about the savior bit: My bet is that McDews character will steal the show. Nigger-loving motherf***ing Jew communist queer Goddamn Yankee from New York City, were the words used to describe Bob Zellner as a mob of white people descended upon him with chains, bricks, lead pipes, and baseball bats on October 4, 1961, in McComb, Mississippi. Well, the one thing that I would like to be sure of, is that young people hear about this movie. Shortly, Zeller wound up being hired by SNCC to conduct outreach to Southern whites. Bob Zellner was born on April 5, 1939 and raised in south Alabama, the second of five boys born to Methodist minister James Abraham Zellner and school teacher Ruby Hardy Zellner. (1964). Zellner recruited white southerners to join the Civil Rights Movement through his role as a campus traveler. In the fall of 1963, Zellner moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her then husband, Bob Zellner, to run the Northeast Regional Office of SNCC. When he was able to take the book and the whole story and figure it out, what is manageable in terms of the movie. I think that's the real message here. Scoop a tad of hair pomade, run your palms with it and apply the product to your locks. and his wife they . When we were kids, Granddaddy, he was just a sweet old man. I would have loved to see Zellners relationship in the later years of SNCC when the movement evolved and Bobby Seale pushed to shift SNCCs strategy and have the white members focusing on educating white folks instead of building a multi-racial movement. The violence that Zellner and his colleagues were subjected to was astounding. "You have to eventually take a stand, and you have to take action." After graduating from college in 1961, Zellner joined . From 2005 to the present Bob has traveled with the Faith & Politics Congressional Tours, as a featured speaker. She was later transferred to the 'University of Missouri.' In the early 1990s, studying at Tulane University for a Ph.D. in History, Zellner wrote a dissertation on the southern civil rights movement. His father, James Zellner, was a Methodist minister and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, a group to which his grandfather had also belonged. The film "Mississippi Burning" so distorted the role of the FBI in the movement that Bob toured college campuses lecturing on the real history of the struggle. An Evening with Bob Zellner: Civil Rights Activist is being held at Gateway Church of Christ on Feb. 25 and will feature a look at the movie based on his life, Son of the South." The writer-director Barry Alexander Brown constantly reiterates how hard it is for white people to act against the mob and recognize the humanity of Black people. Well, the paradigm, it is just the story of one of our freedom songs we had in the movement, that freedom is a constant struggle, because after the Civil Rights Movement, we never thought that women's rights would be challenged again, or that anyone would try to restrict the vote to white people ever again, or labor rights would be restricted, but what's happened is that the Civil Rights Movement, there was tremendous reaction against the Civil Rights Movement and the right wing really dug in and did the kind of grassroots community organizing that the movement had done. The most emotional part was when I saw the actors taking Lucas Till, the actor that plays me, taking him out of the car to take him down to the tree. Zellner is partnered with his wife, Pamela Smith, to stay in front of what he calls a new era for civil rights. Bob Zellner. The attack would lead Zellner, then a student at nearby Huntingdon College with an emerging interest in the Black freedom struggle, from an observer to a movement participant. Memorial services will be at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday,. The opening credits reveal a languid montage of beautiful images of the South set to music that reminded me of that TV series with Carrol OConnor (Archie Bunker from All in the Family) from the 80s In the Heat of the Night. It's about young people and it's especially about the strength and power of women, not only in the Civil Rights Movement, but then our nation in general. The beautiful thing about a biopic is that in less than two hours you can travel through a lifetime. Arrested 18 times in seven states, he organized in McComb, MS., Albany, GA, Danville, VA, Talladega, Montgomery, and Birmingham, AL, as well as New Haven, CT, and Boston. They have a daughter named Anne Zellner, who is a lawyer at the firm 'Ryley Carlock & Applewhite' in Denver. It's really virulent here in the South, and it's easy to revert to that. A veteran of the 1960s civil rights movement, she served as a recruiter for the Freedom Summer project and was co-editor of Student Voice, the student newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Here's the briefcase." Carta Abierta del Directorio; Cdigo de tica; Directorio; Miembros. Robert always considered Kathleen a strong-willed lady and someone with the ability to push her opinions firmly. Marriage to Elizabeth Pamela Smith. (2003). Disowned by his family, his father became a minister and implemented his teachings into his own family, taking a major trip from being a southern racist to being a human being, Zellner described. Back then, Robert was more interested in the commodity markets but was equally fascinated to know a different perspective of the supply and demand chain. Zellner and four other students (later known as the Huntingdon Five) outraged school authorities, however, when they began attending civil rights meetings with Black students from what was then Alabama State College for Negroes. Tell me a little bit about the importance of shooting right here, where all of this really happened. Part of it is that Jeff Sessions is alumni of Huntingdon College. Zellner also participated in SNCCs McComb voter registration campaign and in the Pike County Nonviolent Movement before moving to Leflore County to work with Amzie Moore and the McGhee family on desegregation, voter registration, and the formation of the Leflore County Freedom Democratic Party. The moral aspect was that if you didn't fight back, you had a potential of converting that person. I want to know everything about you, man, from the time you were born till right now. He did not quite trust Zellner, a white southerner. The first week he entered the office in Atlanta, SNCCs then executive director, Ed King, told him to answer the phone and left to return to school. He suffered brain damage and post traumatic stress from the physical abuse inflicted upon him. How could you not make a decision at that point? Menu. He suffered brain damage and post traumatic stress from the physical abuse inflicted upon him. Over 50 years later, Mr. Zellner and his wife Dottie (who met and married working for SNCC) are still activists/organizers working with the North Carolina Forward Together Moral Movement and Rev. His continued active role in the movementnotably as one of 16 arrested with Rev. Robert and Kathleen married soon after her first semester ended. During the summer of 2013, Zellner was arrested with North Carolina Forward Together Movement for protesting voter suppression and continued to work closely with North Carolinas Moral Mondays Movement. Please email us at [emailprotected], subject line republish, with any questions or to let us know what stories youre picking up. He and the other members of the Equity Project Alliance believe it's important to remind everyone that the fight hasn't ended and we need to look at equity and inclusion and continue to understand how these systems are still very serious remnants of our dark past. When Bob was in college he was assigned to write a paper on the aftermath of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by iconic activist Rosa Parks, and the race relations . I didn't know the extent to which I would and the lifelong involvement, but I knew that I was destined to do that. average weight of a high school basketball player. The series chronicled the life of Kathleen's client, murder convict Steven Avery. Bob Zellner, civil rights activist and author of The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, sent this . But when I was in the scene, when I was doing the cameo in the hanger scene, I was kind of into the scene, so it was not so bad. We had the moral high ground, but it was also very practical. He was born in Oshkosh on May 2, 1960 the son of the late Raymond and Virginia Miley Zellner. Robert is from Florida. Here is how to style your locks for a surfer hair look: 1. Follow Storyteller. Anthology. In the movie treatment, however, McDew is less expansive. Zellners Methodist preacher dad arrives for an impromptu family meeting in the middle of the street, right in between the college students and the KKK. Just because a movie has Spike Lees name attached to it, doesnt mean its gonna be revolutionary. (1967-1980). by JWA StaffOur work to expand the Encyclopedia is ongoing. She handled fundraising and helped screen volunteers for Freedom Summer. Bob Zellner was white. Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism. I met Barry through Judy Irola and she said that he was from Montgomery, graduated Sydney Lanier. 2. In one of her interviews, Kathleen mentioned that she had binge-watched the 2015 'Netflix' series 'Making a Murderer' with Robert on their home theater and was intrigued. So it was a moral necessity and a practical necessity. Born in Alabama on 5 April 1939, John Robert Zellner was the second of James Abraham Zellner and Ruby Hardy Zellners five sons. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/robert-zellner-44847.php. James Zellner, an itinerant Methodist preacher and member of the Ku Klux Klan, traveled to Europe during World War II to help support the Jewish resistance to the Nazis. Zellner also was arrested during a peaceful protest at the state capital in Raleigh. He later moved to Wilson, North Carolina. As the son of a Methodist minister, Zellners interest in civil rights was rooted in his religious faith. Young white and free with the world ahead of him, just as soon as he finishes his final group paper on race relations. I was very lucky, being a student of sociology and psychology, that it was Rosa Parks who challenged me and said, "You can't study this forever, and something's going to happen in front of you someday and you're going to have to decide which side are you really you? Robert Zellner, in a plaid shirt, conducts a GROW workshop with workers in Laurel, Mississippi, undated, Dorothy M. and Robert Zellner Papers, WHS, The rising sentiment in 1965 that whites should organize among whites challenged Zellner. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Though threatened with expulsion for his involvement with student protests, Zellner graduated in 1961 with a degree in psychology and sociology. Son of the South tells how Zellner chose to work for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early 1960s. This changed when one day, Robert came to know that he might have to move to Vietnam. Some of Wikitia's pages are sourced from Wikipedia.org's Mainspace and Draftspace. Witnessing History: Former SNCC field secretary Bob Zellner stands next to a poster of Son of the South, a film about his work in the Civil Rights Movement, at a screening in Montgomery, Alabama. Zellner was beaten, almost hung, and jailed as a result in McComb, Mississippi. Hence, Robert began searching for a new research fellowship program. Trump and the others want to bring racism back to the open, so that's a good thing. And sometimes when I tell my university students that I was in jail with Dr. King and was mentored by Rosa Parks and written about by Eleanor Roosevelt in her last book, they say, "Did you meet Harriet Tubman or Abraham Lincoln?" In 1967 when SNCC became all Black, Bob and Dottie Zellner designed and organized a white organizing push in the deep South called Grass Roots Organizing Work (GROW). Left largely unexplored is McDew, Black and Jewish from Ohio and chairman of the. Bob Zellner, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek (Montgomery: New South Books, 2008). A paper on race relations. While in Russia, he lived and worked with a group of black gospel singers who were also helping the resistance, and when he returned to the United States, he repudiated his racist beliefs. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors and classmates at a small church school in Alabama thought he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of . After his eighteenth arrest, Bob and his partner, Elizabeth Pamela Smith have moved back to his home state of Alabama, where they worked to elect Senator Doug Jones and support the work of EJI, Bryan Stevensons Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery. NewSouth Books, 2020. At twenty-two, he rode from Atlanta, Georgia to Albany Georgia on the Central Georgia Railroad on December 10, 1961. He was untouched by the civilized world.. One would think a film about the civil rights movement wouldnt invite in the white savior trope, but the scene where our blonde-haired leading man carries Joanne (Lex Scott Davis), the beautiful mocha skinned Black woman in his arms (slow motion) through an angry mob of white people to safety is laughable. I said, "Well, no, that's the same movement, but they were there earlier." It was very difficult to gain their trust, because I remember when James Forman finally made it to the SNCC office. John Robert "Bob" Zellner was born on April 5, 1939 in Jay, Florida. First time I went back to Huntingdon College campus, I was arrested. Doug Tanner, the tour takes hundreds of Senators and Congresswomen and men to Alabama every year to commemorate Bloody Sunday and the passage of the 1965 Voters Rights bill. Born in Alabama on 5 April 1939, John Robert Zellner was the second of James Abraham Zellner and Ruby Hardy Zellner's five sons. MacQueen was fascinated with Zellners ability to get out of his comfort zone and overcome the fear and social stigma that was so strong at that time, enabling him to stand up for something that he saw was so clearly wrong. The first time, he witnessed the Klansmen and their sympathizers mercilessly beat the Freedom Riders in a melee made possible by the pre-arranged absence of the Montgomery police. Born January 28, 1962, in Green Bay, he is the son of Mary Ellen (Day) Zellner and the late Bob Zellner. (2012). He put a big Wollensak recorder up on the desk and he said, "Look, brother, I want to know your life from the time you were born to right now, and it better hold out." Trying to shift the destructive mentality that locked whites into racism instead . His story is coming to Pensacola. A native Southerner born in a former Klan family, Bob Zellner dedicated his life to the fight for racial equality in the Civil Rights Movement nearly sixty years ago. Dorothy Miller Zellner (2013). Happy Womens History Month! Zellner also Campaigned against David Duke in Louisiana when the former Klansman ran for governor claiming that he was no longer a racist. Excerpts from our interview with civil rights activist Bob Zellner. Until the time . Zellner brings his girlfriend Carol Ann (Lucy Hale) along. C'est son histoire, celle d'un jeune Blanc qui se bat pour les droits des Noirs dans l'Amrique raciste des annes 1960, que le film retrace. Like, how did he meet his wife, activist Dottie Zellner (also white and worked for SNCC)? "SNCC was our life. All who were injured were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. I hope they take away that people have, after this movie, is that it's a young people's movie. In 1963, he helped integrate the library and lunch counters in the segregated mill town of Danville, Virginia, the last capitol of the Confederacy. The documentary is airing periodically on PBS through 2010. I had met church people strong in faith, but until then I had never seen such a dedicated soldiers, he remembered. He said, "I'm not coming back. Zellner and four other students (later known as the Huntingdon Five) outraged school authorities, however, when they began attending civil rights meetings with Black students from what was then Alabama State College for Negroes. 4. When SNCC became an all-black organization in 1967, Bob and his wife Dottie joined SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund to organize an anti-racism project for black and white workers in the Deep South called GROW, Grass Roots Organizing Work, also called Get Rid Of Wallace. Robert J Zellner, age 62, of Oshkosh, passed away at his home on Tuesday June 21, 2022. He took a very courageous stand in 2008 and now have things that have gone so far backwards that he's not able to invite this film crew back to Huntingdon to shoot on the campus. Bob Zellner was 22 years old when he got his first taste of the civil rights movement after marching to city hall with 100 Black Burglund High School students through McComb, Mississippi, in. I also hope that the takeaway to young people, and to women who are really leading the charge right now to save or reclaim our democracy, is that it can be done. John Robert Zellner (born April 5th, 1939) was the first white southerner to serve as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Because President West, Cam West, had taken a very courageous stand when the book came out in 2008. It was painful. He was not just white, but from Alabama, and his father and grandfather had been members of the Ku Klux Klan. Updated: Jan 11, 2021 / 12:19 PM CST. Bob is related to Margaret R Zellner and Linda Ann Miller. Bob Zellner (left) greets students after chapel. Tell me about what your feelings were during that situation? . For several months Zellner, McDew, and Moses ran a freedom school, Nonviolent High of Pike County, for the students who dropped out of Burglund High to protest Traviss expulsion, though the school closed when the three activists were convicted of disturbing the peace and contributing to the delinquency of minors. Hollywood loves to see Black women and men brutalized on screen and Son of the South isnt afraid to go there. Zellner Has Promised Big Revelations in the Case Kathleen Zellner, in a photo she posted on Facebook. Alas, thats the line left out of the movie, with McDews character cut out at that point. piggly wiggly moss point . We had to be, at least tactically, non-violent. That one small action blows up in his face, and the university threatens to expel the boys just weeks before graduation. We've never dealt with basic racism and sexism of our country, and we really have to do that now. Kathleen had met Robert for the first time in Missouri. At 'Fed Atlanta,' Robert got acquainted with a research fellow from 'Duke University' who was pursuing the same doctoral program. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) The movie 'Son of the South' is now slated for release in theaters and online in February. Following Nixon's ping-pong diplomacy in 1972, Bob Zellner spent six weeks in China visiting paper plants, studying pulpwood harvesting, and lecturing at the National Institute for Minorities in Peking on SNCC, SCEF and multicultural work in the white community. Activist Dorothy "Dottie" Miller (Zellner), who lost her shoes to high-pressure hoses after being clubbed during a demonstration in Danville, Virginia, gives an affidavit to James Forman, SNCC executive secretary. GROW built a residential educational facility in New Orleans and began organizing the Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association while working in Laurel, Mississippi where a wildcat strike involving black and white Masonite factory workers and woodcutters spread across the southern states. 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