Civil Rights’ Roughneck Preacher, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)
…a, died this week at the age of 89. Shuttlesworth was called the cussing preacher, but his fiery preaching and willingness to put his body on the line countless times made him the warrior of the Civil Rights movement. In A Fire you Can’t Put out, The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, author Andrew Manis said of him: “I believe Shuttlesworth personified a significant essence of African American spirituality and the black wa…
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