- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
- Creator:
- Manis, Andrew
- Date of Original:
- 2007-03-09
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham
Clergy--Alabama--Birmingham
African American clergy--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
African American Baptists--Alabama--Selma
African American Baptists--Alabama--Birmingham
Clergy--Alabama--Selma
African American clergy--Alabama--Selma
Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
African American Baptists--Ohio--Cincinnati
Clergy--Alabama--Ohio--Cincinnati
African American clergy--Ohio--Cincinnati - People:
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, 32.32597, -87.10648
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, 39.12711, -84.51439 - Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Fred Lee Shuttlesworth, African American Baptist pastor and the central leader of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama. Shuttlesworth was one of the pioneering figures in the civil rights era. The organization he founded in 1956, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), joined with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to protest segregation in Birmingham in 1963. Partly as a result of those direct-action demonstrations, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1093
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