On The Bus Uw Civil Rights Pilgrimage - The House Of Podcasts

Zellner University - On the Bus, Spring 2015

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Bob Zellner is a civil rights foot soldier.  He marched with Dr. King, with Rosa Parks, with John Lewis. Bob Zellner joined our group ostensibly to provide some historic perspective.  He brought humor, clarity and inspiration. On a cold day in Mississippi, the roads covered in sheet ice, we stayed off the bus. Instead, we gathered in a conference room of our hotel for a long, warm session of what we called Zellner University.    Over the years in the movement, Bob Zellner has been attacked, beaten into unconsciousness, had his life threatened, been arrested 18 times. But at 76, he is still marching and still singing.  As he told us one night, as he made his way to the front of a church, rather than linger in the back, “that’s the thing about the SNCC guys, we always want to be up front, where the action is” Bob Zellner was the first white field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.  SNCC was one of the most important grass roots groups