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Bob Zellner interviewed on Keith Beauchamp’s Injustice Files

Civil rights activist Bob Zellner continues to advocate for equality and understanding even while balancing some newfound attention. Zellner has been interviewed for an Oprah show segment on the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Rides set to air May 4, and and pre-production activities continue on a feature film to be executive produced by Spike Lee based on Zellner’s award-winning memoir, published by NewSouth Books, called The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement …

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March 8, 2011 No Comments

Civil Rights Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. Dies

Chuck Morgan, 78, one of the most colorful and powerful legal advocates for civil rights in the 1960s, died January 8, 2009, of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He “died peacefully at his Destin, Fla., home,” the local newspaper reported. He was a larger-than-life personality who not only recognized the injustices in society but did something about them. NewSouth’s author Bob Zellner wrote movingly about Chuck in The Wrong Side of Murder Creek …

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January 11, 2009 No Comments

Black Belt civil rights pioneer Hulett passes

John Hulett, the first African American sheriff and later probate judge in Lowndes County, Alabama, has died at age 78. He was a co-founder of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, whose black panther ballot symbol was later adopted by the founders of the Black Panthers.

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August 22, 2006 No Comments