A Fire You Can't Put Out ：The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth ( Religion & American Culture )

Publication subTitle ：The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

Publication series ：Religion & American Culture

Author： Andrew M Manis

Publisher： University of Alabama Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780817313456

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780817309688

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780817311568

Subject： K81 Biography;K82 China

Keyword： Shuttlesworth, Fred L., -- 1922- -- 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., Shuttlesworth, Fred L., -- 1922-, Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century., Shuttlesworth, Fred L., -- 1922-2011.

Language： ENG

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When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home, Shuttlesworth vigorously renewed his commitment to integrate Birminghams buses, lunch counters, police force, and parks. The incident transformed him, in the eyes of Birminghams blacks, from an up-and-coming young minister to a virtual folk hero and, in the view of white Birmingham, from obscurity to rabble-rouser extraordinaire.

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.

First published in 1999, Andrew Maniss award-winning biography of one of the nations most courageous freedom fighters demonstrates compellingly that Shuttleworths brand of fiery, outspoken confrontation derived from his prophetic understanding of the pastoral role. Civil rights activism was tantamount to salvation in his understanding of the role of Christian minister.