A conversation on a crisis: Library event brings authors together
His involvement with the civil rights movement began as a college sociology project. But one meeting at Reverend Ralph Abernathy’s Montgomery church with Dr. Martin Luther King changed his life forever. Robert (Bob) Zellner, a white Alabamian whose grandfather and father were once members of the Ku Klux Klan, became a civil rights hero whose activism continues to this day. Bob will be interviewed via Zoom in the Shelter Island Library’s Friday Night Dialogues series on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. His 2008 autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek,” has been made into a movie produced b...