Dorothy Zellner

Overview

Dorothy "Dottie" Miller Zellner born New York, NY January 14, 1938. Feminist; peace advocate; civil rights activist; actively opposed Israeli occupation and Gaza War. Ran New England Regional Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which led civil rights movement and opposed Vietnam War; co-editor of its newsletter Student Voice; arrested at CORE demonstration in Miami, 1960; SNCC staff member in Mississippi, summer 1964. She described the civil rights movement as "average women doing heroic things." (Women's Voices for Change, July 29, 2014)

Quotations

"If you're Jewish and you're against the Israeli occupation, you should speak out as a Jew in the name of the Jewish tradition of social justice, you should say to the government of Israel 'No, no, you do not speak for me,' you should come out and demonstrate." (Mondoweis, August 23, 2009; photo Geneseo)