Born March 18, 1922
Mount Meigs, Alabama

Civil rights activist and minister

Fred Shuttlesworth is a veteran of the war for civil rights in America. Like veterans of other wars, he has the scars to prove it. While fighting for desegregation, voting rights, and equal employment opportunities in the 1950s and 1960s, Shuttlesworth’s home was bombed three times, he was arrested more than thirty times, beaten dozens of times by thugs—some of them from the Ku Klux Klan (a white supremacist group—sometimes with iron pipes and baseball bats. One time he was blasted unconscious by a high-powered water hose. At the end of the twentieth century, when most other civil rights leaders had died or faded into obscurity, Shuttlesworth remained on the front lines for change.

Youth and education

Freddie Lee Robinson was born on March 18, 1922, in Mount Meigs (Montgomery County), Alabama...