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3 days ago · Person eventually found a telephone booth and used a scrap of paper with Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth’s number, a lifeline that he had inexplicably placed in his pocket earlier. Shuttlesworth sent help, with aid from a nurse in Shuttlesworth’s church providing some care to his injuries.
3 days ago · The local civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth organized several cars of black citizens to rescue the injured Freedom Riders in defiance of the white supremacists. The black people were under the leadership of Colonel Stone Johnson and were openly armed as they arrived at the hospital, protecting the Freedom Riders from the mob.
4 days ago · Huntley, the retired UAB professor, who has worked extensively in the fields of Civil Rights, Labor History, Black History and African American Studies has seen this kind of rift before. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth had bitter disagreements during the early days of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Movement.
3 days ago · Local movements were led by a local preacher and activist named Fred Shuttlesworth, and came to a head in 1963 when he asked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to come to Birmingham to assist with segregation and racial tensions.
6 days ago · Recovering a Sense of the Sacred. By Matthew Fox. September 24, 2024. Awe, New Cosmology, sacred creation, Thomas Berry, Via Positiva, Wisdom. The health and future of Mother Earth are in rapid decline due to Climate Change, which is in turn caused by human arrogance and indifference and greed.
5 days ago · the Shuttlesworth documentary screening exploring the life and legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttles-worth, the unrelenting freedom fighter who inspired liberation movements all over the world. Thanks to the amazing team at Main Street Alabama, we are going . to have an incredible time this week. Keep your vocal chords . warmed up, and sing with me ...
4 days ago · Your tour will begin at the statue of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, the leader of the local movement Civil Rights struggle. We’ll discuss why the Civil Rights movement was needed and what led to segregation's fall.
