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Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011

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Personal name headingShuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
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Variant(s)Robinson, Freddie Lee, 1922-2011
Birth date1922-03-18
Death date2011-10-05
Place of birthMontgomery County (Ala.)
Place of deathBirmingham (Ala.)
AffiliationSouthern Christian Leadership Conference
Profession or occupationCivil rights worker
Minister
Found inBirmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963, 1989: p. 115-6 (Fred L. Shuttlesworth; Reverend; president, Alabama Christian Movement for Civil Rights; b. 1922, Montgomery County, Ala.)
Cincinnati enquirer WWW site, viewed Oct. 5, 2011 (Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth dies; today [Oct. 5, 2011], God called Rev. Shuttlesworth home, ending a remarkable and inspiring 89-year life that left Alabama and the United States forever changed)
New York times, Oct. 6, 2011 (Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, b. Mar. 18, 1922, Mount Meigs, Ala.; d. Oct. 5, 2011, Birmingham, Ala., aged 89; a storied civil rights leader who survived beatings and bombings in Alabama a half-century ago as he fought against racial injustice alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Freddie Lee Robinson took the surname Shuttlesworth from a man his mother, Alberta Robinson, later married.)
NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Res. Center (Howard Univ.) for His Interview, 1968 Sept. (Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 1922- ; founding member, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC))