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 ...

A program at the Birmingham Museum of Art will celebrate the legacy of the late minister and civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth with a discussion and mural unveiling. On August 3, from 6 to 7:30 p ...

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 ...

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 Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, 43, for years a top deputy to Martin Luther King, is an old hand at organizing nonviolent demonstrations. But he isn’t quite so skilled at dispersing them—at least when ...

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth refused to back down despite huge risks, enduring arrests, beatings and injuries from fire hoses aimed at blacks marching for racial equality in the segregated South of ...

Two very significant human beings died recently, and comparing the two media responses is telling: Steve Jobs, the visionary, one of our modern-day Edisons, and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the ...

BIRMINGHAM — Civil rights leader the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.

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 ...

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As the daughter of one of the most impactful civil rights leaders, the late Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Ruby Shuttlesworth had a front-row seat to historic moments and movements.The 76-year-old, who now ...

The way legend tells it, it would be easy to believe the civil rights movement was a one-man struggle. You could almost believe the Montgomery bus boycott was a solo performance. You could almost ...