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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement Author:Bob Zellner, Constance Curry Even forty years after the movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors though he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of remarkable. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, Zellner tells how one w... more »hite Alabamian joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the Southern way of life. He was in all the campaigns and was close to all the major figures. THE WRONG SIDE OF MURDER CREEK is Bob Zellner's larger-than-life story, and it was worth waiting for.« less