Day: June 4, 2012

Bob Zellner, author of The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, sent this missive: “I grew up in LA, lower Alabama. My Great-Granddaddy Zellner thought he could not do without slavery. Granddaddy Zellner thought he could not get along without segregation. My father’s generation thought they simply could not get along without opposite sex marriage. I get along fine without slavery and I don’t have a personal need for segregation. As for marriage, I have tried it twice without success and hope I am done with it. For those who like it, I am happy for them to have at it anyway way they want it. Opposite sex, same sex, no sex, it is all the same for me …”