Bob Zellner joined the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, eventually becoming a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Fifty years after the movement, Zellner continues to advocate for equal rights. He currently lives and teaches in New York state.
Constance Curry is a writer, activist, and a fellow at the Institute for Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. The first white woman on the SNCC Executive Committee in 1960, she continued working in the South with the American Friends Service Committee. Since retirement, Curry has written an award-winning book, Silver Rights; co-authored Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning and Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter; and has written and edited for Deep in our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement.
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