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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.
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 ...
http://conversations.psu.edu/episodes/bobzellnerFreedom Rider and Activist Bob Zellner discusses his involvement in 1964's Freedom Summer and his lifelong de...
16 de dic. de 2023 · Son of the south: ¿Quién es Bob Zellner? Su historia real y curiosidades de la película Bob Zellner se convirtió en un héroe de la lucha contra el racismo en Estados Unidos...
Bob Zellner was SNCC's first white field secretary and a former Klan member. He participated in many civil rights campaigns, such as the Freedom Rides, the Danville sit-ins, and the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
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. However, an ally he was—and is.
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, […]
