Dorothy M. and Robert Zellner papers, 1960-1979.

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Dorothy M. and Robert Zellner papers, 1960-1979.

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Papers created and collected by two civil rights activists who worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Conference Educational Fund during the 1960s and early 1970s. Most of the materials are near-print items, with some original correspondence, memos, reports, and notes, concerning SNCC, SCEF and its Grass-Roots Organizing Work (GROW) project among white Southerners, the Deep South Education and Research Associates, and many other civil rights and labor organizing groups. Among the other topics treated are the seven-month strike of Local 5-443, International Woodworkers of America against the Masonite Corp. in Laurel, Mississippi, and the Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association. Few personal papers are included; among them are autobiographical and biographical writings; other writings and correspondence; and a few items pertaining to Robert's father, the Reverend James Z. Zellner, and his civil rights activities. The tape recordings include a 1968 meeting of poor whites from Sunflower and Bolivar counties in Mississippi with GROW representatives, and an account by Robert Zellner of his early civil rights experiences and the couple's role in the formation of GROW. The photographs portray picketing by the Boston Friends of SNCC in 1965 and various unidentified meetings and rallies.

2.8 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes),4 tape recordings,107 photographs, and62 negatives.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925331

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Zellner, Bob, 1939-

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Bob Zellner 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. ...

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formally organized in Birmingham, Alabama in the fall of 1938. It was inspired by the findings of the National Emergency Council's Report on Economic Conditions in the South and by the philosophies of the Southern Policy Conference, a group of Southern intellectuals. Its structure was based on representation from the thirteen Southern states (non-Southerners were welcomed as non-voting members) and the District of Columbia and New York (the la...

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Boston Friends of SNCC.

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Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association.

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