When Dr. King took the wheel of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was already trying to start a movement in Birmingham. He was one of the most courageous leaders of the civil rights movement who survived beatings, bombings, and dozens of arrests in his efforts to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama and throughout the south. 

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