Lectures and Programs offered by Dr. Zellner
His appearances will commemorate, during the next ten years, the 50th anniversaries of Civil Rights events:
- Little Rock
- The lunch counter sit-ins
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Summer
Among his topics are:
- A White Southerner in the civil rights movement as a Field Secretary for SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- GROW, Gulfcoast Reconstruction: Operation Well Being, Race and class issues after Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi
- Native American Rights and the current struggle against injustices
- His forthcoming book, (a memoir) and the struggle to preserve civil liberties
- Obama and Civil Rights
- Political and moral lessons of the Civil Rights Movement as they relate to today's issues:
- A. Protection of civil liberties from outside forces and government
- B. Violence on campus and in American society--presenting a new paradigm for confilct resolution
- C. Insights on the national debate regarding racial and ethnic sensitivity and social change
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