A fire you can't put out
Subtitle: the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
By: Andrew M. Manis.
Series: Religion and American culture; Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
Subjects: Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-; Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.; Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home, Shuttlesworth vigorously renewed his commitment to integrate Birmingham's buses, lunch counters, police force, and parks.

The incident transformed him, in the eyes of Birmingham blacks, from an up-and-coming young minister to a virtual folk hero and, in the view of white Birmingham, from obscurity to rabble-rouser extraordinaire."--BOOK JACKET. "From his 1956 founding of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights through the historic demonstrations of 1963, driven by a sense of divine mission, Shuttlesworth pressured Jim Crow restrictions in Birmingham with radically confrontational acts of courage."--BOOK JACKET.

"Andrew M. Manis argues that, during a ministry that extended beyond Birmingham and into the 1990s, Shuttlesworth displayed in undiluted form the fiery, combative spirituality of African American religion. Throughout the book, Manis emphasizes Shuttlesworth's dual role as pastor and civil rights leader, stressing Shuttlesworth's understanding of his responsibility as a Christian minister as the driving force behind his civil rights activism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: Chronology; title: Introduction; title: Alberta; title: Ready; title: Bethel; title: Agitation; title: "Bull"fighting; title: Stalemate; title: Jailbirds; title: Confrontations; title: Cataclysm; title: "Actionist"; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.