Receive challenge and inspiration from a civil rights mentor and lifelong activist calling us to faithfully confront racism and injustice – drawing from the wisdom of those who have gone before us.

Even fifty years after the civil rights 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 thought he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of remarkable. Now, in his memoir, Zellner tells how one white 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 he’s still telling it.

Bob Zellner’s engagement with the EMU community is sponsored by Campus Ministries, Multicultural and International Student Services (MISS), Black Student Union, and the Student Government Association (SGA).