RECORDING: Civil Rights Activist Bob Zellner at UUSS
Posted by Rev Roger
Posted on August 24, 2026
* Click here to watch the recording of his talk at UUSS *
How does a white man born into the KKK become a civil rights activist?
Bob Zellner, 87, visited Sacramento from Alabama. Watch his talk about his incredible life. Learn how each of us can find a place in the current struggles for justice. He joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on graduation from college in 1961.
His early life is dramatized in Spike Lee and Barry Alexander’s 2020 film “Son of the South.”
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