Fred Shuttlesworth
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Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led fights against segregation and other forms of racism, during the civil rights movement. He often worked wit
Shuttlesworth in 2002
Shuttlesworth pastored Bethel Baptist Church from 1953 to 1961. The church was the headquarters of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), which Shuttlesworth founded in 1956. It was bombed three times, the first time being on December 25, 1956.
From left to right: Shuttlesworth, King, and Albernathy at a press conference in May 1963
Statue of Shuttlesworth in front of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute by sculptor John Walter Rhoden.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., wh
Fred Shuttlesworth
…Jr., although they did not always agree on tactics and approaches. In 1957, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Shuttlesworth was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1961, he took up a pastorate in Cincinnati, Ohio to work against racism, and on behalf of homeless people, but remained active in Birmingham. In…
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