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The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a leader of the civil rights movement, passed away

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AT The BRIDGECROSSING Jubliee 2011 in selma Alabama The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a leader of the civil rights movement, passed away Wednesday morning after a long illness. He was 89. Princeton Baptist Medical Center spokeswoman Jennifer Dodd confirms he died at the Birmingham hospital Wednesday morning. Shuttlesworth was born in Mount Meigs, AL in 1922, the son of a coal miner and a maid. He was very active as a preacher of the gospel and civil rights in Birmingham during the 1950's, serving as pastor of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church. He was beaten and arrested numerous times for his activism and was the target of several acts of violence, including the bombing of his house on Christmas Day in 1956. "He suffered brutal beatings. His home was on several occasions bombed, his church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan. But Fred was relentless," said author LD Ervin. [To see civil rights videos and exclusive interviews with Fred Shuttlesworth, visit the WBRC Civil Rights Vault: www.myfoxal.com/vault]

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