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Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

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@ Encyclopedia of Alabama (Project)

Manis, Andrew

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Encyclopedia article about Fred Lee Shuttlesworth, African American Baptist pastor and the central leader of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama. Shuttlesworth was one of the pioneering figures in the civil rights era. The organization he founded in 1956, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), joined with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to protest segregation in Birmingham in 1963. Partly as a result of those direct-action demonstrations, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Keywords

  1. African American Baptists
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Clergy
  4. African Americans
  5. Alabama
  6. Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
  7. Birmingham
  8. Cincinnati
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  11. Civil Rights Movements
  12. Civil Rights Workers
  13. Clergy
  14. Ohio
  15. Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
  16. Segregation
  17. Selma
  18. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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