Word: shuttlesworth
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...other places in the South last week, the anti-bus-segregation drive-and reaction to it by white extremists-went far beyond litigation. In Birmingham, Ala. the Rev. Mr. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 34, antisegregation leader and pastor of a local Negro Baptist church, told the city commission to end bus segregation by the day after Christmas, or "we will take whatever action is necessary." Late Christmas night six or more dynamite sticks blasted the Shuttlesworth house. Miraculously, Shuttlesworth and his family escaped serious hurt. Shuttlesworth next day led some 150 of his followers in broad-scale, nonsegregated bus riding, later...