JVP-NYC Series
Conversations with Movement Elders

WHEN: Wednesday, April 29, 4-5:30 P.M. ET

Join us in hearing from the remarkable Dorothy Zellner. 

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Dorothy M. Zellner is a veteran of the 1960s civil rights movement.  She was a staff member of the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1962 to 1967, and of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) from 1967 to 1972.  In SNCC she worked with the late Julian Bond as part of SNCC’s communications department and ran the Northeast Regional Office of SNCC.  She spent the 1964 Freedom Summer in Greenwood, Mississippi, and worked in Atlanta, Georgia, and Danville, Virginia, as well.  

After living a total of 20 years in the South, Ms. Zellner returned to New York City, where she became a long-time staff member at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and then worked at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. One of the six editors of the award-winning book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (University of Illinois, 2010), she is a volunteer for Jewish Voice for Peace; a founding member of Jews Say No!; and a member of the board of the Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre. 

She’ll be interviewed by JVP-NYC member Jay Saper.