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 …
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 …
NewSouth Author Phil Noble Responds to Civil Rights Arrest in Mississippi
NewSouth author Rev. J. Phillips Noble, who grew up in Learned, Mississippi, writes in recognition of the arrest of an alleged Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi this past week …
This Day in Civil Rights History – November 3, 1979
The following comes from This Day in Civil Rights History, written by Ben Beard and NewSouth editor Randall Williams: “On this day in civil rights history, Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazis killed five people in North Carolina, in what would become known as ���the Greensboro Massacre” …
Birmingham Civil Rights Walking Tour
Save for reference next summer: An educator offers walking tours of the civil rights historical sites in downtown Birmingham.
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.
Voices of Civil Rights Documentary to be Screened; Voting Rights Act Supported for Renewal
The Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles will screen Voices of Civil Rights, a documentary by Jeffrey Tuchman, on July 15 at 7:00 PM; tickets are $7.00. The film follows a group of journalists on a 70-day bus ride through country, interviewing people about the civil rights movement. The stories that the journalists collected are […]
Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray Awarded NAACP's Highest Honor
On July 17, the NAACP will honor civil rights attorney Fred Gray, NewSouth author of Bus Ride for Justice, with the William Robert Ming Advocacy Award for his long-standing civil rights contributions. Gray, born in Montgomery, Alabama, grew up to become one of only two black lawyers in Montgomery in the 1950s. When his friend […]