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John Robert Zellner (born April 5, 1939) is an American civil rights activist. He graduated from Huntingdon College in 1961 and that year became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as its first white field secretary.
Born in Alabama on 5 April 1939, John Robert Zellner was the second of James Abraham Zellner and Ruby Hardy Zellner’s five sons. 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. While in Russia, […]
Bob Zellner dejó su vida de privilegios de blanco del sur en la década del 60 para sumarse al movimiento por los derechos civiles; “Yo quería ser parte de la solución”, dice hoy, a los 83 ...
18 de mar. de 2024 · Bob Zellner was a white civil rights activist and the first white field secretary for SNCC. He organized workshops, protests, and freedom schools in the South and faced violence, imprisonment, and discrimination for his work.
Bob Zellner was white. That made him a special target for the mob that greeted young Black protesters. Zellner was SNCC’s first white field secretary. He was not just white, but from Alabama, and his father and grandfather had been members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Born in Alabama in 1939, Bob Zellner has spent the better part of his nearly 82 years in and around the Alabama Gulf Coast. The son and grandson of Ku Klux Klan members, Zellner may have been the unlikeliest of allies to the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Biografía de Bob Zellner y su filmografía, todas sus películas: Hijos del sur.