Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89 The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 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. , died on Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. He was 89.
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