Wrong Side of Murder Creek, The: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement Paperback – January 15, 2019

This is a really great book on the Civil Rights Movement, and should appeal to a variety of interests. It's a great memoir from a white member of the movement who was widely accepted by people of all skin colors. Thus, if one is a young activist of a majority status looking to be a part of a minority movement, Zellner practically gives a how-to manual. That said, it is also a really unique look at the movement itself. Zellner was obviously about as on the ground as you can get, and worked as a field organizer for SNCC. Thus, as his story vividly shows, he was really in the thick of the action. All in all, the book isn't necessarily the most well written book, but it's fascinating and reads very easily.If you're very interested in the organizing done for the Civil Rights Movement, I would read this and I've Got the Light to Freedom by Charles Payne.

In researching my novel Torched: Summer of 64, which is historical fiction about the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, I kept coming across the name Bob Zellner. Little did I realize, until I read The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, the extent of his involvement in The Movement. His latest novel, with Constance Curry and a Foreword by Julian Bond is riveting, vivid, inspirational, informative and timely. It is a book for today, a definite must read. Joe Edd Morris

This is an incredible story about Bob's early life and later involvement in the civil rights struggle. It is quite pleasing and easy to read as it is written like a Bob is having a conversation over the dinner table with you. I highly recommend this book because it highlights not just Bob's story, but the depth of the networks and mentoring involved during the civil rights movement. The book is focused on Bob, but it is a great window to the inner-workings of the movements, the struggles and dedication of so many who often go overlooked. Readers who read this book will have a more well-rounded view of the struggle,rather than the more common perspective centered around high profile "celebrity" heroes like King and Parks.

I am so familiar with the places in this book. I was born in Perry county Alabama. I attended the University of Alabama when Miss Lucy tried to attend and experienced the rioting that happened. It was an horrific time!! There's one reference I think is wrongI believe George Wallace was shot in Maryland not that in Birmingham.

Read this book for my Social Protest class , great read, it allows readers to understand the civil rights movement from another perspective . Now only if Bob Zellner would respond to invites to come to the Rutgers Newark campus .

I heard Bob Zellner talk about his experiences at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, but they ran out of books before I could buy one for him to sign. Once I got it from Amazon I read about those same experiences before reading very many pages so was amazed when the incredibly dangerous events continued for years in the civil rights movement. Amazing that Zellner lived through it. I am such a slow reader that I am usually to late to review the books I get from Amazon, but this one I couldn't put down until I finished it.

Bob Zellner is the son of a man who was a close friend of my father, Rev.J.F. McLeod Jr. They were a part of a group that was leading the fight against the seperation ofthe races. We lived on the right side of Murder Creek in Brewton, Alabama. I was off inthe US Army During most of this time but I recall my father telling about the crossthat was burned in the front yard of the Parsonage. This wonderful book brought backmemories of that time of turmoil in this country. I recomend it to anyone who isinterested in knowing about this time!

It's a chilling, exhilarating book that makes me think, makes me remember the 60s and beyond. It tells the stories that are behind the stories. it tells the hard truths that go behind the scenes, what really happens to those you read about in the papers. it's about the enduring efforts to make life better for all people, not just white folks. It's about the people who don't stop working for justice.