Dottie Miller gives affidavit to James Forman after losing shoes to high-pressure fire hoses in Danville, Virginia, June 1963, (Photo courtesy of Danny Lyon)pic.twitter.com/Mx7BsLGg5y
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Zellner was born and raised in New York City. The child of immigrant Jewish leftists, her parents taught her about Black history and the need for racial justice. She grew up hearing stories of Jewish resistance to Nazi fascism.
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Zellner’s parents supported her move to Atlanta, and it came as no surprise when years later, Zellner’s father proudly passed around a press clipping of his daughter in jail.
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After graduating from Queens College and inspired by the sit-in movement, Zellner first went South in 1960 to attend a CORE workshop. She later helped plan and orchestrate New Orlean’s first sit-in.
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Many of Zellner’s friends at CORE would speak “incessantly” about an organization run completely by young people. This organization was SNCC.
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