BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and ...
“Shuttlesworth,” Alabama Public Television’s forthcoming documentary about civil rights leader and minister Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, will get a premiere at Birmingham’s recently renovated historic ...
The lineup of events honoring the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth continued tonight at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, headquarters for the pivotal 1963 civil rights rallies and marches he led with the ...
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a pioneer of the civil rights movement, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. Shuttlesworth led Birmingham's battle against segregation — a battle that focused the national ...
At one end of the fire hose were officers deployed by Bull Connor, the notoriously racist police commissioner who was fond of telling his men to use sticks, dogs and whatever else was necessary to ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Horace Huntley talked about the life and legacy of the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who led many of the 1963 civil rights protests and boycotts in ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and ...
2011-11-26T16:37:48-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c6b/20111126164118003.jpg Horace Huntley talked about the life and legacy of the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. • When a little-known black Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King took the helm of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was already in Birmingham ...
As a child growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s and ’60s, there was one place where educator and preservationist Martha Bouyer felt valued: her community church. “Outside, I was ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and ...