Posts Tagged ‘Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth’

It isn’t often that a man gets to meet one of his boyhood heroes. I grew up in the racially segregated South of the mid 20th century. For me, an African American, segregation was a fact of life. We went to different schools from whites, drank from different water fountains and sat in the back…

Fred Shuttlesworth was born in Alabama on 18th March, 1922. After graduating from Selma University (1951) and Alabama State College (1952), Shuttlesworth became pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in 1953. In May 1956 Shuttlesworth established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR). In December, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation in…

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth visited Christ Community Church on Sunday and then we had him over to our home afterwards for a reception. Really a wonderful and inspiring occasion as he recounted a number of stories (testimonies) of how God spared him through bombings, beatings, jailings (38 times), etc. I think I was most impressed with…

My trip to Cincinnati on Memorial Day weekend (May 25-27) for an interview with Civil Rights Icon Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was a great experience. When he was in his 30’s and I was a teen in high school, he sought school integration for his children. He was one of my heros. So it was a…