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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Manis, Andrew Michael. Fire you can't put out. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607250235 Online version: Manis, Andrew Michael. Fire you can't put out. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999 (OCoLC)631024565 |
| Named Person: | Fred L Shuttlesworth |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Michael Manis |
| ISBN: | 0817309683 9780817309688 |
| OCLC Number: | 40644764 |
| Awards: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 2000 |
| Description: | xxxii, 541 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Alberta -- Ready -- Bethel -- Agitation -- "Bull"fighting -- Stalemate -- Jailbirds -- Confrontations -- Cataclysm -- "Actionist" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) |
| Responsibility: | Andrew M. Manis. |
Abstract:
"From his 1956 founding of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights through the historic demonstrations of 1963, driven by a sense of divine mission, Shuttlesworth pressured Jim Crow restrictions in Birmingham with radically confrontational acts of courage. His intensive campaign pitted him against the staunchly segregationist police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor and ultimately brought him to the side of Martin Luther King, Jr., and to the inner chambers of the Kennedy White House."
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- Shuttlesworth, Fred L., -- 1922-2011.
- Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
- Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations.
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.

