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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Root) — The Rev. Jonathan McPherson went to jail for the first time in his life on Friday, April 12, 1963. It was Good Friday in Birmingham, Ala. Blacks on that day were defying an injunction ...

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 — Civil rights leader the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.

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 ...

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has been named recipient of the prestigious 2025 Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) announced Thursday.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, often eclipsed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in life, was praised Sunday as the catalyst who brought the civil rights movement to Birmingham ...