Zellner’s memoir, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, was recently produced by Spike Lee into a major motion picture, Son of the South. He obviously started making notes, at least mental notes. He was definitely checking me out. ‘Son of the South’ Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist Sometimes absorbing, sometimes mortifyingly tone-deaf, the film dramatizes the memoir of the … The examples of Mrs. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer. It reminded me of Nazi Germany. Based on the Bob Zellner… So you went to Atlanta to SNCC, right? We've been working on it for a long time. He brings to life heartbreaks as well as victories of the Civil Rights Era in a way that empowers and instructs the modern-day movement. Well, we bonded right away and he asked me questions and so forth, and I talked to him about it, but I think we were extremely lucky to get Lucas Till to play this role. Did he ever come around? Civil rights activist and former Southampton resident Bob Zellner. Actually, tell me a little bit about Lucas Till as playing the young Bob Zellner. I didn't know it would come so quickly. Right. Bob Zellner is ‘A Son Of The South’. We started working on the script, and the first thing, I think the first draft of the script was done in about 1987, so a long time ago. These are incredible actors in this movie. That's was very hard to see. But did you feel like it was hard gaining SNCC’s trust? He's not going to reconcile with you, but you need to go see him." Bob Zellner was raised in Alabama and is the son and grandson of Ku Klux Klan members. How was it watching your hanging play out on camera? And my father did, and he told me about it later on. Obviously, those are still fresh wounds. It's a coming of age movie about a white southerner involved in the Civil Rights Movement and making the decisions, how incrementally you become committed. Until 1962 Zellner was SNCC’s only white field secretary. The moral high ground was that we were not going to fight back. Talk about that real life situation. anguishmacgyver. Bob Zellner’s Memoir, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek; A white Southerner in the Freedom Movement, published by New South Books, tells the story of how he grew up in South Alabama. I hope it's a young people's movie and I really hope that it comes through as a women's movie, because SNCC was led by strong women. We had to go to Tuskegee." 3/? They had books and the mom was throwing the books in the fire. I was very lucky, being a student of sociology and psychology, that it was Rosa Parks who challenged me and said, "You can't study this forever, and something's going to happen in front of you someday and you're going to have to decide which side are you really you? Whatever was necessary was what I had to do, and then going to the hospital and seeing James Zwerg and saying, "Your Freedom Ride's over." That would be like a pitched battle. The white supremacists and the neo-Nazis and all the things that have been going on lately that feel like we're almost fighting this battle again. Fellow Alabamian and former Shelter Islander Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights history of Birmingham, Carry Me Home, will facilitate the discussion. I hope that's the takeaway. And he said, "I know, we've written our wills." READ MORE: Spike Lee to EP Civil Rights Drama ‘Son of the South’ Based on Bob Zellner’s Autobiography. Bob Zellner’s career as a civil rights activist spans nearly seven decades. I didn't know the extent to which I would and the lifelong involvement, but I knew that I was destined to do that. A native Southerner born in a former Klan family, Bob Zellner dedicated his life to the fight for racial equality in the Civil Rights Movement nearly sixty years ago. Zellner was SNCC’s first white field secretary. Well, my grandfather, he never changed his stance about supporting the Ku Klux Klan. Anything you want to leave the audience with? The street was covered with blood and broken glass. I also hope that the takeaway to young people, and to women who are really leading the charge right now to save or reclaim our democracy, is that it can be done. There was a reconciliation before the old man died. As a new generation asks, “What is my place in this struggle?” Zellner’s work points to new answers. They brag on all the movies that have been shot there, but not Spike Lee and Barry Alexander Brown shooting Son of the South. Bob’s Methodist minister father (Byron Herlong), long ago converted from racism during a unique experience recalled relatively late in “Son of the South,” literally gives his son his blessing as Bob sets out on a path that crosses those of Freedom Riders in Birmingham and protesters in McComb, Miss. Well, what was going through my mind at that time of meeting Rosa Parks and getting to know her and Reverend Abernathy. https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2021/02/movie-review-son-of-the-south-2021 Bob Zellner is a writer, known for Son of the South (2020), Breath of Freedom (2014) and Moyers & Company (2012). I think he's wonderful. It's really virulent here in the South, and it's easy to revert to that. Director Barry Alexander Brown brings real-live activist Bob Zellner’s story to the screen in Son of The South, which will be out on February 5. To celebrate a life that truly deserves to be celebrated is a welcome change from watching bio-pics about gangsters and sociopaths who are best left buried in the debris of history. “Son of the South” -- released today in select theaters and on demand -- is a historical drama set in 1960s Alabama. Well, the one thing that I would like to be sure of, is that young people hear about this movie. As the grandson of a Klansmen, he’s forced to open his eyes and come face to face with the movement for equality and his place within it. I met Barry through Judy Irola and she said that he was from Montgomery, graduated Sydney Lanier. But I think what it's done, is it's exposed to the racism that was always there. Well, the way I first met Barry Alexander Brown is in New York City, when we were both working on different kinds of films and movies. We didn't know they were racist or what that meant. Those were people that you had to take a tremendous risk to follow them. We loved him and he'd take us around to see Birmingham. Son of the South 2020. Son of the South (Friday, February 5-Theater, VOD) Creating new leaves away from the family is not an easy task, but in the case of the biographical drama Lucas Till’s Bob Zöllner. John Seigenthaler had been beaten in the head with a pipe and kicked her under a car for dead. But when I was in the scene, when I was doing the cameo in the hanger scene, I was kind of into the scene, so it was not so bad. Brian Dennehy playing my grandfather. His continued active role in the movement—notably as one of 16 arrested with Rev. That made him a special target for the mob that greeted young Black protesters. It's about the beginning of the movement, for me, as a white southerner. The same is true for VOD and digital. Part of it is that Jeff Sessions is alumni of Huntingdon College. Yeah. And he said, "Oh no, when we're able to, we get back on the bus." He said, "I don't know." He handed me the briefcase and he said, "I'll be leaving now." Although he occasionally uses a broad brush dipped in primary colors while fashioning his admiring portrait of Bob Zellner, the grandson of a Ku Klux … It was a part of Barry's dream for the movie that it would be shot in Alabama, that it wouldn't be a real Alabama movie with real Alabama people. A lot of people see it as a moderate or a even cowardly stance, but it took a tremendous amount of courage to be non-violent in those situations. Isn't that ironic? They had busted all the cameras. Trump and the others want to bring racism back to the open, so that's a good thing. We brought people together across all kinds of barriers and lines, and now we can do it again to save our democracy. They resulted in a takeover basically, of our government. It's about young people and it's especially about the strength and power of women, not only in the Civil Rights Movement, but then our nation in general. Lucas Till as Bob Zellner in Son of the South. Well, Barry showed his genius as a script writer and an editor and a filmmaker. He came up with the idea that it's about the transition. And that’s a topic Bob Zellner knows something about. Well, I was very lucky that I was mentored by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. By the time we reached the bus station down here, the mob had already really massacred the press. It was a hellish scene. It's like, yeah-. I had been banned from campus for 40 years, not allowed to come back. That was incredible. The first white Southerner to serve as a Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he worked with historical figures including John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, and Anne Braden. So Bob, tell me a little bit about meeting Barry and beginning this relationship where he's taking your story and making it into a film? Bob Zellner, A Son Of The South 1 Photo Bob Zellner's book "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek." After graduating, Zellner was hired by SNCC to recruit white students for the civil rights movement. That's when they beat me really badly, and almost hanged me that day. Honored to be a part of this. Their work supplied the Civil Rights Movement with its most significant assets, including the power of multi-racial solidarity and grassroots organizing. One of my brothers has reverted to be a Trump supporter and a Roy Moore supporter, and just as mean as he can possibly be, and he's a deacon of the church. And I said, "they're going to kill you in Mississippi." Plus. And Tuskegee was a great place to shoot. As a result, over the course of the last half century, he has … On April 28, 2021 Zellner spoke about his experience in the civil rights movement at the MacQueen Alumni Center at the University of South Alabama. What do you hope is to take away from this, when people see this movie? His senior Sociology assignment prodded the class to use library research to find solutions to racial problems. He said that my father didn't repudiate his Klan views, but he said, "You are my son. As the son of a Methodist minister, Zellner’s interest in civil rights was rooted in his religious faith. I just didn't want to believe that that's why, that they had a problem with the script or the situation. They'd be... entering into the present day, and letting bygones be bygones, and entering the new. At least the father and son, a reconciliation. At one point, the ministers here that had worked with my father and Dr. King and Joe Lowery, they said, "Your Daddy's about to die and you need to go reconcile with him. He got the character right away and he's really good looking, much better than me, but everybody says there's a faint resemblance between the young me and Lucas Till. But Granddaddy lived until about 93. I knew that because my father had already done a tremendous journey of leaving the Ku Klux Klan that I was destined to take a part in this somehow or another. You go there, there's literally nothing there. Spike Lee serves as an executive producer. And now we have to say, "Well, unfortunately we weren't able to shoot there. Son of the South is a 2020 American biographical historical drama film, written and directed by Barry Alexander Brown. He was interested in my story and I started telling him stories about SNCC and working in Alabama and Mississippi. He put a big Wollensak recorder up on the desk and he said, "Look, brother, I want to know your life from the time you were born to right now, and it better hold out." Bob Zellner’s first steps into the civil rights movement would come later as a student at the all-white Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Zellner’s memoir, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, was recently produced by Spike Lee into a major motion picture, Son of the South. Bob (Lucas Till) witnesses the extent of racism in Alabama and sets out to stop it in “Son of the South.”. I thought it was a huge ongoing affair, but the staff was just getting together, so I was on the ground floor without really realizing it. Bob Zellner (Writer of The Wrong Side of Murder Creek) A native Southerner born in a former Klan family, Bob Zellner dedicated his life to the fight for racial equality in the Civil Rights Movement nearly sixty years ago. Dr. William Barber in the civil disobedience that kicked off the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina in 2013—presents a message informed by direct experience that provides tools for organizing in today’s fight for justice. #lucas till #Son of the South #Bob Zellner #screenshots. He's an extremely good actor, and he really gets it. I think all five of us students knew which side was correct and which side was right, which side was Christian, which side was American, constitutional and which side was terrorist and unconstitutional. There were two wings in SNCC. A grandson of a Klansman comes of age in the deep south and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement. I don't know. I was working with a cinematographer, Judy Irola and we were doing movies around the world and we'd started out doing civil rights movies about the South. I said, "Well, no, that's the same movement, but they were there earlier." He's incredible. Yeah, well, there was both the moral and the practical aspects of it. I said, "When are they coming?" It got me into thinking about nonviolence. My father was disowned by his father and his mother and his brothers never spoke to him again in his whole life. Son of the South: Excerpts of our interview with civil rights activist Bob Zellner Loading... Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. When his research for the paper results with him being asked to leave his college, Zellner’s life changes forever. If you fought back, you'd just continue the enmity. A native of Mobile, he graduated from Huntingdon College in Montgomery where he became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Alumni I said, "Well, who's coming." In Son of the South, out on February 5, Lucas Till plays real-life civil rights activist Bob Zellner. On April 28, 2021 Zellner spoke about his experience in the … How could you not become a part of the movement when Saint Rosa Parks told you to do so? It's hard to separate because they're your family. Yeah. South sonIt was after Clansman’s grandson took a stand against racism when he joined the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He said, "I'm not coming back. We need people to know that the Civil Rights Movement was led mainly by strong women, not these men that are held up in history as the leaders of the movement. It's like when President Obama was elected, everybody said, "Oh, we can relax now," and everybody relaxed and look what happened. An incredibly powerful true story. As soon as I met Barry, I got his whole story. In the biopic, the grandson of a Klansman finds himself on the opposite side fighting for civil rights alongside great figures of the time like Rosa Parks. I hope they take away that people have, after this movie, is that it's a young people's movie. Well, the paradigm, it is just the story of one of our freedom songs we had in the movement, that freedom is a constant struggle, because after the Civil Rights Movement, we never thought that women's rights would be challenged again, or that anyone would try to restrict the vote to white people ever again, or labor rights would be restricted, but what's happened is that the Civil Rights Movement, there was tremendous reaction against the Civil Rights Movement and the right wing really dug in and did the kind of grassroots community organizing that the movement had done. He invited me back to campus. They were the people that deserved to be followed. Prior to that release, they released a movie trailer. If he is still at it today, he nearly lost it many times in the process. Even though it came from a background that only knew hatred. #son of the south #bob zellner #lucas till #son of the south spoilers #whump #whumpgif #othergifs #comfort #hair … That's really good. You can't not take a position in this. Well, that was in the early 80's. And Daddy said, he even put me back in the will. Based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek”, the story starts as Zellner begins his journey into the Civil Rights movement with a research paper focused on racial problems in the South. I think Barry's gone way out of his way to involve young people, especially young, talented, famous people among young people. That's a positive thing, because as long as it's hidden, we're not dealing with it, but now it's so open, that we have no choice but to deal with it. Tell me a little bit about your grandfather. Dr. William J. Barber II, the NAACP, voting rights groups, and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Son of the South is the true story of Bob Zellner, born into a Ku Klux Klan family and who became one of the first white volunteers for the civil rights movement in Sixties Alabama. And there's the moment, where Rosa Parks says to you, not making a choice is making a choice and there's something going to happen to you where you're going to have to jump in and make a decision on that. Produced by Spike Lee (BlackkKlansman). That brought back a lot of emotion to me. That's a tough thing. Wow. Son Of The South Review: This Film Celebrates An Unsung Hero. We did it 50 years ago. I went to the SNCC office, the address that I had, and there was one person there, sitting in this almost empty office. It's very sad that Huntingdon College, where a huge part of the script takes place, that they weren't able to bring themselves to welcome us to shoot on the campus. I was egging the people on to hang me! I guess I was very lucky, because early on, our first staff meeting actually in SNCC, was in McComb, Mississippi. After his eighteenth arrest, Bob and his partner, Elizabeth Pamela Smith have moved back to his home state of Alabama, where they worked to elect Senator Doug Jones and support the work of EJI, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery. I'm going back to school." What he did do was, when my father left the KU Klux Klan, he had disowned my father. He took a very courageous stand in 2008 and now have things that have gone so far backwards that he's not able to invite this film crew back to Huntingdon to shoot on the campus. It's just a very strong, terrible disease that people can't get over. But it means a lot that he put me back in the will. I thought I'd be able to go into graduate school, maybe be a minister or something and have a more normal life, but it was not a normal time. What went through my head was the similarity of my fellow white southerners acting like Nazis, because by the time we got there, they had busted all their suitcases and all the students had books. we loved all of that. They were studying for exams. When we were kids, Granddaddy, he was just a sweet old man. He was not just white, but from Alabama, and his father and grandfather had been members of the Ku Klux Klan. Tell me a little bit about the importance of shooting right here, where all of this really happened. 113 notes. Famous for battles with segregationist lynch mobs, violent police, and the KKK, Zellner is also an organizer who brought Black and white Southern working people together in the GROW Project, including Klan members, on terms of equality and respect. So it was a moral necessity and a practical necessity. How could you not get involved with that? That was my introduction for SNCC. Until 1962 Zellner was SNCC’s only white field secretary. Since he began working as a civil rights activist in his native Alabama in the early 1960s, Zellner, the son and grandson of Ku Klux Klan members, has remained vigilant and on the front lines in the fight against racism. Especially when you couldn't have thousands of people demonstrating, carrying arms. I mean, it is the devil you know? We had the moral high ground, but it was also very practical. He said that little land that he left me doesn't mean anything. A messy biopic about civil right activist Bob Zellner, and based on “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek,” “Son of the South” comes during a moment when the social and political divide couldn’t be more stark, and though nobody is dismissing Zellner’s story, or Brown’s yearning to direct it, you can’t help but squawk at yet another film about the civil rights movement told from the perspective of a … And sometimes when I tell my university students that I was in jail with Dr. King and was mentored by Rosa Parks and written about by Eleanor Roosevelt in her last book, they say, "Did you meet Harriet Tubman or Abraham Lincoln?" Bob Zellner's memoir "Wrong Side of Murder Creek" has been made into a movie. Somebody hands you a briefcase and that's the extent of SNCC. Trying to shift the destructive mentality that locked whites into racism instead of change, Bob continues to work with, among others, Rev. If we had shown arms and openly been prepared to fight with arms, we would have been wiped out. Based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, It stars Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Jake Abel, Shamier Anderson, Julia Ormond, Cedric the Entertainer and Brian Dennehy in his final film role. Was it you guys are just at the church, "Well, we're not really, we're just here to write a paper and I'm not getting involved with anything.". I said, "I'm, Bob Zellner. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — For six decades, Gulf Coast native Bob Zellner has been on the front lines of the civil rights movement. Follow. I think that's the real message here. Fall (Friday, … All of us SNCC was in that one briefcase. We had to be, at least tactically, non-violent. It's amazing how they can reconcile those things. How scary was that? Or was he die hard to the day he died about his stances? The moral aspect was that if you didn't fight back, you had a potential of converting that person. The most emotional part was when I saw the actors taking Lucas Till, the actor that plays me, taking him out of the car to take him down to the tree. First time I went back to Huntingdon College campus, I was arrested. When he was able to take the book and the whole story and figure it out, what is manageable in terms of the movie. from We've never dealt with basic racism and sexism of our country, and we really have to do that now. Talk to me a little bit about the riot and, we're just blocks away from where that happened. Here's the briefcase." But early in life, he questioned Jim Crow segregation, which was endemic in his community. One was non-violence as a way of life, and the other... Everybody in SNCC agreed in the earliest SNCC, that we would all be non-violent in terms of our public demonstrations and so forth. of South Ala. Son of the South (2020) - On Sky Cinema Premiere on Thu 13 May at 6:10pm. Univ. Well, it's very important to shoot it right here. For those wondering how to fight for equality, combat prejudice, and move past polarized politics, his work across racial and political lines is crucial, and his inspiring stories have lessons and examples. Zellner’s lectures are filled with death-defying and often humorous accounts from these critical moments in history. And he said, "Oh good. After that, there was not a lot of question with the early SNCC people about my commitment, but I also realized that white privilege, would lead me go back to being white at any time that I wanted to, had I chose to do so, but I made a commitment that I wouldn't, so I tried to live up to that. If he is still at it today, he nearly lost it many times in the process. How could you not make a decision at that point? We knew that at some point we'd have to make a decision. Tell me about what your feelings were during that situation? Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. Son of the South is a biopic is based on The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, the autobiography of civil rights activist Bob Zellner (Lucas Till). Zellner’s autobiography, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, was recently adapted into a feature film produced by Spike Lee, called Son of the South, and is currently available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime. We're here, we're here in Montgomery. After graduating, Zellner was hired by SNCC to recruit white students for the civil rights movement. Because President West, Cam West, had taken a very courageous stand when the book came out in 2008. https://variety.com/2019/film/news/spike-lee-son-of-the-south-1203129386 It was very difficult to gain their trust, because I remember when James Forman finally made it to the SNCC office. 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