BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 89.

Shuttlesworth said he never feared death, and repeatedly put himself on the line during his struggle against Jim Crow segregation in the 1950s and early 1960s.

He was brutally beaten by a mob, sprayed with city fire hoses, and arrested by police 35 times. He was blown out of his bed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan, which also bombed his church.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/fiery-fearless-civil-rights-icon-fred-shuttlesworth-dies-at-89/2011/10/06/gIQAtYTWQL_story.html

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He was blown out of his bed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan, which also bombed his church.

babyfinland posted:
He was blown out of his bed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan, which also bombed his church.

babyfinland posted:
He was blown out of his bed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan, which also bombed his church.

babyfinland posted:
Shuttlesworth said he never feared death