The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Birmingham on a summer day in 2008 and visited with the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the final ...

The exemplary leadership and heroism of the late Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth inspired a generation of leaders who will hopefully continue to carry the torch in the fight against inequities and injustices, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) 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 ...

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth’s survival was a miracle. The Birmingham pastor was an early supporter of the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- and wanted to push similar integration efforts in central Alabama. On ...

The wells of courage from which the Southern freedom movement drew its strength are remarkably numerous and deep. Nonetheless, I would be hard-pressed to name anyone who was more courageous than the ...

Civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth has died, according to reports. He was 89. In the 1950s, his activism resulted in beatings and... Civil rights leaders Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, ...

At one end of the fire hose were officers deployed by Bull Connor, the notoriously racist police commissioner who was fond of telling his men to use sticks, dogs and whatever else was necessary to ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - 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 ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. • 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 ...