NEWOUTH BOOKS

978-1-58838-222-1
1-58838-222-2
$27.95 hardcover
6 X 9
350 pages
Biography/Cultural Heritage

AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER

Even forty years after the movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors though he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of remarkable.

Now, in his long-awaited memoir, Zellner tells how one white Alabamian joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the Southern "way of life". He was in all the campaigns and was close to all the major figures. The Wrong Side of Murder Creek is Bob Zellner's larger-than-life story, and it was worth waiting for.

about the authors
Zellner now lives in Southhampton, New York, and teaches in New York state. Atlanta-based co-author Curry is also a civil rights veteran and has written several books, including the award-winning Silver Rights, from which she produced a documentary film entitled The Intolerable Burden.