A fire you can't put out : the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth / Andrew M. Manis.

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"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 a...

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Main Author: Manis, Andrew Michael
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1999], ©1999.
Series:Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Subjects:
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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.
Civil rights workers > Alabama > Birmingham > Biography.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations.
Genre:
Biography.
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xxxii, 541 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Alberta
  • Ready
  • Bethel
  • Agitation
  • "Bull"fighting
  • Stalemate
  • Jailbirds
  • Confrontations
  • Cataclysm
  • "Actionist"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.