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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Franai White began volunteering with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham in 2018, mentoring a 12-year-old, Alyssa Moko. “She reminded me so much of myself at 12,” White said. “She was ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Root) — The Rev. Jonathan McPherson went to jail for the first time in his life on Friday, April 12, 1963. It was Good Friday in Birmingham, Ala. Blacks on that day were defying an injunction ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, often eclipsed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in life, was praised Sunday as the catalyst who brought the civil rights movement to Birmingham ...