Receive challenge and inspiration from a civil rights mentor and lifelong activist calling us to faithfully confront racism and injustice – drawing from the wisdom of those who have gone before us.

Even fifty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner’s professors thought he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of remarkable. Now, in his memoir, Zellner tells how one white Alabamian joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the southern way of life. He was in all the campaigns and was close to all the major figures. is Bob Zellner’s larger-than-life story, and he’s still telling it.

Bob Zellner’s engagement with the EMU community is sponsored by Campus Ministries, Multicultural and International Student Services (MISS), Black Student Union, and the Student Government Association (SGA).

Listen in as those who were on the spring break Civil Rights Tour reflect on what they gained from the experience.

Y-Trip Locations for 2016

Civil Rights Learning Tour with Multicultural and International Student Services, the Gospel Choir, Y-Serve and the Black Student Union. – Coordinators: Celeste Thomas, Tae Dews, Oksana Kittrell, Christian Parks

Alterna Community – a bilingual and international community of Christ-followers devoted to faithful acts of hospitality, mercy, and justice – LaGrange, Georgia. – Leaders: Amanda Helfrich &Teresa Garcia Bautista

Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) – responding in Christian love to those affected by disasters) in Detroit, Michigan. – Leaders: Robert Propst & Harrison Horst

Serving with Appalachian People (SWAP) – addressing sub-standard housing, sharing the message of God’s love and building relationships in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia – Elkhorn, West Virginia. – Leaders: Grayson Mast & Abe Hartzler