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Birmingham revolutionaries : the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights / edited by Marjorie L. White & Andrew M. Manis.

Contributor(s): White, Marjorie Longenecker | Manis, Andrew Michael
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2000Description: xi, 80 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0865547092 (alk. paper); 9780865547094 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011 -- Congresses | Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography -- Congresses | Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Congresses | Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights -- CongressesDDC classification: 305.8/960730761781 LOC classification: F334.B69 | N425 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Rock solid faith: African American church life and culture in 1956 Birmingham / Wilson Fallin Jr. -- Sustaining the fight: the importance of local movements / Aldon D. Morris -- "Classes and the masses": Fred Shuttlesworth's movement and Birmingham's black middle class / Glenn T. Eskew -- Fire you can't put out: the meanings of Fred Shuttlesworth and his movement / Andrew M. Manis -- Historical significance of Birmingham / Wyatt T. Walker -- Remembering the Birmingham movement / Fred L. Shuttlesworth.

Collection of essays presented at a symposium entitled Birmingham revolutionaries : the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian movement for human rights, held in Birmingham in November 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

Rock solid faith: African American church life and culture in 1956 Birmingham / Wilson Fallin Jr. -- Sustaining the fight: the importance of local movements / Aldon D. Morris -- "Classes and the masses": Fred Shuttlesworth's movement and Birmingham's black middle class / Glenn T. Eskew -- Fire you can't put out: the meanings of Fred Shuttlesworth and his movement / Andrew M. Manis -- Historical significance of Birmingham / Wyatt T. Walker -- Remembering the Birmingham movement / Fred L. Shuttlesworth.

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