A new film, Son of the South, tells the story of Bob Zellner who broke from his Alabama Ku-Klux-Klan heritage to become the first white Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organiser — and nearly got lynched for it.
Zellner spoke with Barry Healy, expanding on the film’s story to include his radical trajectory from the 1960s onwards.
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