Civil rights advocate Fred Shuttlesworth dies at 89

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Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader who helped bring Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Shuttlesworth worked alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on Wednesday at age 89. Shuttlesworth  often spoke publicly against the violence that was  prevalent  in the South at that time, and founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Andrew Manis, professor of  history at Macon State College in Georgia, and author of “A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth,” remembers Shuttlesworth.

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