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 tenacity, has died. He ...

Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among the ...

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 ...

Fred Shuttlesworth deserves better than this. Birmingham deserves better. I took a documentary crew to Phillips High School not long ago — Phillips Academy now, but Phillips High in the history books ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Horace Huntley talked about the life and legacy of the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who led many of the 1963 civil rights protests and boycotts in ...

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

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Birmingham on a summer day in 2008 and visited with the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the final meeting of two of the giants of the civil rights movement. Jackson sat in on an ...

Birmingham civil rights leader Bishop Calvin Woods Sr., the longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Norwood who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth during ...

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 ...