April 5, 1939 -. [14] He attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Forman said that he hoped [his] story holds up., Zellner understood that the Civil Rights Movement belonged to young Black southerners, but he was also fighting for [his] own rights as wellI was joining the movement to establish my own right to fight for what I believed in., James Forman and Bob and Dottie Miller (Zellner) in Danville, Virginia, 1963, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 177, dektol.wordpress.com. She finished the look with a pair of gold-framed Ray-Ban sunglasses, some boho chic necklaces and hot pink APL trainers, as she stayed safe in a black face mask. From 2005 to the present Bob has traveled with the Faith & Politics Congressional Tours, as a featured speaker. 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. [8], After hearing a talk by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery in 2002, Zellner became involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement. She was originally considering a career as a history professor after earning her B.A. Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. 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). He later traded for Ned Cook Industries and managed its research department, and also worked for Drexel Burnham Lambert. This movie reminds me of the afterschool specials (morality movies) that latchkey kids used to watch back in the 80s. Zellner was involved in numerous civil rights efforts, including nonviolence workshops at Talladega College, protests for integration in Danville, Virginia, and organizing Freedom Schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1964. He was proud to meet former President Obama and shake his hand at a rally in Minneapolis. In the way too long Freedom Rider scene, not only does the audience witness Black women getting stomped in the street and punched in the face by white men, they get pulverized by white women using purses with bricks inside them as weapons. Schumers mother was a volunteer on Zellners State Senate campaign, so both of them organized vigorously for her son, the future US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. She was admitted to US District Court, Northern District of Illinois and US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in 2007. [6][8] The white community did not approve, and Zellner had crosses burned outside his dorm by the KKK, the school suggested his expulsion, and the Attorney General of Alabama accused him of communism. Originally titled "Some Thoughts in Response to Dotties Thoughts on a Womens Liberation Movement", the article was republished in 1970 in the book Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation under the title "The Personal is Political." Mrs. Ruby Hardy Zellner -- Wife of the late Rev. SNCC Field Secretary Arrested for Vagrancy While Walking on Campus in Montgomery, Alabama, January 9, [1963], crmvet.org crmvet.org, Click Here to View Document Zellner felt comfortable as a white person in a Black-led organization and felt that SNCC represented the ideal of a beloved community. As a Jew in the South, however, she found very little support for her work. Don't knowingly lie about anyone Mobile Register and Baldwin County. Be Proactive. Zellner worked as a nurse for several years before joining the Center for Constitutional Rights in 1984. or anything. He is the husband of attorney Kathleen Zellner, who is known for her extensive work in wrongful conviction advocacy, most notably, for representing Steven Avery who was the subject of the two-part Netflix series Making a Murderer.Despite being an academic uninterested in business in his early youth . Bob Zellner, Winter 1963-1964, Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 18, dektol.wordpress.com. (Viewed on January 18, 2023)