Dorothy Zellner
Dorothy Miller Zellner | |
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Civil rights activist | |
Spouse | Bob Zellner |
Dorothy "Dottie" Miller Zellner is an American human rights activist, feminist, editor, lecturer, and writer. A veteran of the 1960s civil rights movement, she served as a recruiter for the Freedom Summer project and was co-editor of Student Voice, the student newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She is active in the Palestinian solidarity movement.
Early life
Zellner was born in Manhattan and raised by left-wing secular non-Zionist Jewish immigrant parents who could speak Yiddish.[1] Her parents raised her with an awareness of Black history, racial justice, socialism, the Soviet Union, and Jewish resistance to Nazism.[2] She credits the Jewish social justice tradition of her parents for inspiring her to become involved in the civil rights movement.[3][4] Zellner graduated from Queens College.[5] Zellner identifies as "100% atheist".[3]
Political activism
In 1966, Zellner helped design the logo for the
In 1969, while serving as a staff member of the
Zellner worked as a nurse for several years, before she joined the
After hearing a talk by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery in 2002, Zellner became involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement. Since 2002, she has traveled to Israel and Palestine on dozens of occasions, volunteered with Physicians for Human Rights, and is an active supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).[9]
See also
References
- ^ "What Ella Baker Taught Us About Ferguson And Gaza". Tikkun. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- SNCC Digital. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b "From Mississippi to Gaza — Dorothy Zellner reflects on 50 years of struggle". Mondoweiss. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "What We Did: The American Jewish Communist Left and the Establishment of the State of Israel" (PDF). Jewish Voice for Peace. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- OCLC 812780336.
- ^ "The Women Behind the Black Panther Party Logo". Design Observer. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Hanisch, Carol (January 2006). "The Personal Is Political: The Women's Liberation Movement classic with a new explanatory introduction". Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "Dorothy Miller Zellner". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "Jewish civil rights activists use legacy to promote BDS". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2020-07-29.