Dorothy Zellner Oral History

Object number2021.001.0084

Date09/16/2021

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Dorothy Zellner

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)

DimensionsDuration: 50 Minutes

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Collections

Civil Rights Movement
All Online Objects
Oral History Collection

DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dorothy Zellner. A dedicated civil rights activist throughout the 1960s, Zellner was attacked with a high-pressure fire hose during a protest in Danville, Virginia, in June 1963. She was running the northeast regional office of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the time of the assassination. Interview conducted over Zoom on September 16, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Dorothy Zellner is co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (2010). As of 2022, she also serves on the board of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project. A digital archive of primary source material related to her activism may be accessed here: Dorothy Zellner - SNCC Digital Gateway SNCC Digital Gateway. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator