Fred Shuttlesworth
✓ Source-basedfallingCivil rights activist (1922-2011)
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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 with Martin Luther King Jr., although they did not always agree on tactics and approaches.
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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.Filmography 3
4 Little Girls
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
I Heard It Through the GrapevineAwards 2
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Rosa ParksAlso won International Freedom Conductor Award
Carolyn McCarthyAlso won Presidential Citizens Medal
John C. WhiteheadAlso won Presidential Citizens Medal
Edwin FeulnerAlso won Presidential Citizens Medal
Arthur SchneierAlso won Presidential Citizens Medal
Constance Baker MotleyAlso won Presidential Citizens MedalAbout this person
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 2011 · aged 89
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