Bob Zellner, A Son Of The South 1 Photo Bob Zellner's book "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek." Staff Writer on Feb 8, 2021 Bob Zellner was raised in Alabama and is the son and grandson of Ku Klux Klan members. But early in life, he questioned Jim Crow segregation, which was endemic in his community. As a young man, he joined the civil rights movement, becoming the first white field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. In the course of being beaten, jailed and personally targeted by Alabama’s notorious governor George Wallace, he came to know many of the movement’s icons, including John Lewis, Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer.