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 trying to start a ...

Thursday, the community celebrated 33 years of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and honored former US Attorney General ...

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday morning. He was 89. The Rev. Shuttlesworth ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Those who toiled alongside the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth were among the hundreds gathered Monday to mourn him and celebrate his legacy in the city he fought to liberate from ...

civil rights movement, died Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 89. Shuttlesworth said he never feared death, and repeatedly put himself on the line during his struggle against Jim Crow segregation in the 1950s ...

In his fight for civil rights in Birmingham, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was brutally beaten, sprayed with fire hoses, blown out of his bed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb, and arrested 35 times. His first ...

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, ...

Fred Shuttlesworth, the last of the "Big Three" of the civil rights movement along with Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr., died October 5 in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 89. To the general ...

Called an unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement because of the supportive role he played, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth quietly slipped away in death, Oct. 5, at 89, after having spearheaded the ...

It was a quirk of the 24-hour news cycle that the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the last lions of the civil rights movement, died on the same day as Apple founder Steve Jobs. The New York Times ...