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:

  1. A White Southerner in the civil rights movement as a Field Secretary for SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  2. GROW, Gulfcoast Reconstruction: Operation Well Being, Race and class issues after Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi
  3. Native American Rights and the current struggle against injustices
  4. His forthcoming book, (a memoir) and the struggle to preserve civil liberties
  5. Obama and Civil Rights
  6. 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