Fred Shuttleworth
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Tylyric Gamble
Coach Baker
Algebra 1A5th Period
Feb. 27, 2015
Fred Shuttlesworth
Freddie Lee Robinson was born in Mount Meigs, Alabama, on March 1822. Born to a large family who eventually moved to Birmingham when he was a toddler. Robinson took the surname Shuttlesworth from his stepfather, William, who had married his mother Alberta and worked as a farmer and coal miner. During high school, Fred graduated as valedictorian.
Shuttlesworth worked assorted jobs before he was called to the pulpit, studying at the ministerial institution Selma University and earning his B.A. in 1951, later earning his B.S. from Alabama
State College.
He became the pastor of Birmingham’s Bethel Baptist Church in 1953. After Brown v.
Board of Education ruling, Fred was inspired to actively participate in the growing Civil Rights
Movement. Fred called for the hiring of AfricanAmerican police officers and, with the outlawing of the NAACP in his home state, Fred established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in 1956.
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On December 25, 1956, a Ku Klux bomb was exploded between Fred’s church and the parsonage where he slept. The house collapsed on top of him. Fred’s wife Mrs.Shuttlesworth told news reporters “He was bombed in bed”. Fred walked away, and preached that a miracle would come. Several days after Supreme Court ruling took place Montgomery buses to integrate, Rev.
Shuttlesworth and others challenged the laws in Birmingham by coming together white passengers on a city bus.
Rev. Fred was arrested over 30 times. He was involved in more cases, either he was the defendant or a plaintiff. It reached Supreme Court more than any cases in American history.
Fred’s harassment knew no limits. Supreme Court rejected his legal appeals because it was submitted in the wrong kind of size. Back in 1960, over nine police officers went and boarded a bus. They went and arrested Rev. Shuttlesworth three teenage kids for refusing
Tylyric Gamble
Coach Baker
Algebra 1A5th Period
Feb. 27, 2015
Fred Shuttlesworth
Freddie Lee Robinson was born in Mount Meigs, Alabama, on March 1822. Born to a large family who eventually moved to Birmingham when he was a toddler. Robinson took the surname Shuttlesworth from his stepfather, William, who had married his mother Alberta and worked as a farmer and coal miner. During high school, Fred graduated as valedictorian.
Shuttlesworth worked assorted jobs before he was called to the pulpit, studying at the ministerial institution Selma University and earning his B.A. in 1951, later earning his B.S. from Alabama
State College.
He became the pastor of Birmingham’s Bethel Baptist Church in 1953. After Brown v.
Board of Education ruling, Fred was inspired to actively participate in the growing Civil Rights
Movement. Fred called for the hiring of AfricanAmerican police officers and, with the outlawing of the NAACP in his home state, Fred established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in 1956.
Gamble2
On December 25, 1956, a Ku Klux bomb was exploded between Fred’s church and the parsonage where he slept. The house collapsed on top of him. Fred’s wife Mrs.Shuttlesworth told news reporters “He was bombed in bed”. Fred walked away, and preached that a miracle would come. Several days after Supreme Court ruling took place Montgomery buses to integrate, Rev.
Shuttlesworth and others challenged the laws in Birmingham by coming together white passengers on a city bus.
Rev. Fred was arrested over 30 times. He was involved in more cases, either he was the defendant or a plaintiff. It reached Supreme Court more than any cases in American history.
Fred’s harassment knew no limits. Supreme Court rejected his legal appeals because it was submitted in the wrong kind of size. Back in 1960, over nine police officers went and boarded a bus. They went and arrested Rev. Shuttlesworth three teenage kids for refusing