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http://www.blackpast.org/aah/alabama-christian-movement-human-rights-acmhr

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2594

http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/theme/368

http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/wgbh/tdcr/crdl_wgbh_tdcr_003.html?Welcome

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/fred-shuttlesworth-was-pillar-civil-rights

http://www.bhistorical.org/publications/minutes.html

https://www.biography.com/news/fred-shuttlesworth-alabama-civil-rights-black-history-video

https://blackthen.com/birmingham-campaign-1963/

http://www.realclearhistory.com/2016/05/03/police_brutality_turns_civil_rights_tide_2237.html

http://alabamanewscenter.com/2017/02/07/black-history-bethel-baptist-church-in-birmingham-played-key-role-in-civil-rights-movement/

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Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth (1922-2011) was an African American Baptist pastor and civil rights activist who served as the face of the movement in Birmingham Alabama. He founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights prior to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People being prohibited from operating in Alabama. Following the ACMHR's creation, Shuttlesworth would eventually joined with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Destiny

  • The goal of the Alabama Christian movement fot human rights was to fight for freedom, democracy and first class citizenship for Birmingham blacks.

  • On May 10, Birmingham merchants in turn reluctantly agreed to begin desegregating their downtown department stores.

  • Significantly, the demonstrations and the city's aggressive response helped convince Kennedy to introduce into Congress legislation that eventually became the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

  • Shuttlesworth's frequent absences caused him to resign as president of the organization of 1969 which weakened the organization

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  • The ACMHR believed in using non-violent demonstrations to press forward for the removal of Second Class Citizenship, and wanted to gain the equal learning and employment opportunities that whites had for Birmingham’s black citizens.
  • In 1963, the ACMHR worked with the SCLC and they created “Project C,” which was marches and protests led by Shuttlesworth and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Tensions quickly surfaced between the local organization and the very visible SCLC, as Shuttlesworth came to resent certain actions.
  • In the past they would use marches, sit ins, and protests as their attempts to press for freedom and democracy.

Origin

  • The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights was founded in Birmingham, Alabama in the year 1956 and lasted until 1969
  • The purpose was to coordinate boycotts and sponsor federal lawsuits aimed at dismantling segregation in Birmingham and the state of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement
  • Fred Shuttlesworth, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, served as the president of the group
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