The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday morning. He was 89. The Rev. Shuttlesworth ...

Shuttlesworth led the battle against segregation in Birmingham, Ala. — a battle that focused the national spotlight on the violent resistance to... Civil rights activist Fred Shuttlesworth, hailed by ...

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 trying to start a ...

The city of Birmingham will issue a proclamation declaring an official day of celebration for the late minister and civil rights leader, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. Shuttlesworth, who co-founded the ...

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 tenacity, has died. He ...

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From about 1948 to 1964, there were at least 80 unsolved bombings of black churches, homes and businesses in Birmingham, Ala. Segregationists targeted the black community so frequently that the city ...

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