Dorothy Zellner Oral History

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Videotaped 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.

Object Details

Object title:

Dorothy Zellner Oral History

Date:

09/16/2021

Terms:

Interviews

Oral histories

Civil rights

Protests

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Dallas

Danville

Cambridge

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Medium:

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

Dimensions:

Duration: 50 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2021.001.0084

Curatorial Note:

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