- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Robert Zellner, November 3, 1990
- Creator:
- Zellner, Bob
- Contributor to Resource:
- Fosl, Catherine
- Date of Original:
- 1990-11-03
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Southern Conference Educational Fund
Grass Roots Organizing Work
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Ala.)--Students
Civil rights--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers--United States
Women civil rights workers--United States
Trials (Libel)--United States
Montgomery Improvement Association
Reporters and reporting--Alabama--Montgomery
College teachers--Political activity--Alabama--Montgomery
Police brutality--Alabama--Montgomery
Homophobia--Alabama--Montgomery
African Americans--Violence against--Alabama--Montgomery
Race relations
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations
Cold War--Influence
Communists--United States
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Alabama
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery
Clergy--Alabama
Methodist Church--Clergy
World War, 1939-1945--United States
Fundamentalists--Alabama
Christian ethics--Alabama
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Regional Council
Brandeis University
Arrest--Mississippi--McComb
Arrest--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
Arrest--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Arrest--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Talladega
Arrest--Alabama--Talladega
Arrest--Massachusetts--Boston
Civil rights demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston
Police brutality--Massachusetts--Boston - People:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Zellner, Bob--Interviews
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Seay, Solomon S., 1931-
Gray, Fred D., 1930-
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975
Durr, Virginia Foster
Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965
Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983
Smiley, Glenn E.
Barry, Marion, 1936-2014
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
LaFayette, Bernard, Jr.
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Nash, Diane, 1938-
Lawson, James M., 1928-
Vivian, C. T.
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968
Moses, Robert Parris
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Zellner, Dorothy
McDew, Charles
Shirah, Samuel C., 1943- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Alabama, Talladega County, 33.38006, -86.16591
United States, Connecticut, New Haven County, 41.34882, -72.89986
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, 31.53337, -84.21625
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, 30.53824, -91.09562
United States, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Baton Rouge, 30.44332, -91.18747
United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, 30.06864, -89.92813
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, 42.3555, -71.06575
United States, Mississippi, Pike County, 31.17491, -90.40416
United States, Mississippi, Pike County, McComb, 31.24379, -90.45315 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Description:
- Interview with Bob Zellner, November 3, 1990 conducted by Catherine Fosl.
Bob Zellner, a white Southerner and anti-racist activist during the 1960s, discusses his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, beginning when he was a student at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. In this interview, he tells of his introduction to the movement when he and four fellow students were asked to leave Huntingdon after attending civil rights meetings and non-violent workshops at a nearby black college. Zellner speaks about meeting Anne Braden, who became a mentor to him, and joining SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in 1961 as their first white field secretary. He also discusses being arrested various times while working for SNCC and the creation of the GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work) project, an education center for organizing black and white workers. - Metadata URL:
- https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7pc824c13q
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.
- Extent:
- 1 interview : [01:30:30]
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
- Rights:
-
