• Introduction
• Elaine DeLott Baker
• June Finer
• Roberta Galler
• Miriam Cohen Glickman


• Jan Goodman
• Barbara Jacob Haber
• Elizabeth Slade Hirschfeld
• Faith Holsaert


• Florence Howe
• Jacqueline Levine
• Gertrude "Trudy" Orris
• Vivian Laburg Rothstein


• Debra L. Schultz
• Carol Ruth Silver
• Harriet Tanzman
• Dorothy "Dottie" Zellner
• Links

Civil Rights Interview Biography

Interview: Dorothy "Dottie" Miller Zellner

Dorothy "Dottie" Miller (Zellner), who lost her shoes to high-pressure hoses after being clubbed during a demonstration in Danville, Virginia, gives an affidavit to James Forman, SNCC executive secretary. Magnum Photos, Inc. c1963 Danny Lyons.

Dottie Miller Zellner was in Danville [Virginia] to write a pamphlet about the movement there for SNCC. When asked how she got the nerve to be the only white person in a march with 65 Black people in a movement already known to be dangerous, she said:

I didn't have any more nerve than they did because I was the only white person. That's what I am trying to say. I had as much nerve as they had. In fact, some of them had much more nerve then I had because after all, I was going to leave there. I had already graduated from college. I was not likely to be going on welfare. The fact that I was there with 65 Black people was a moment of total, thrilling pride.

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