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Fred Shuttlesworth

American civil rights activist (1922–2011)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led fights against segregation and other forms of racism, during the civil rights movement. He often worked with Martin Luther King Jr., although they did not always agree on tactics and approaches.

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“Fred Shuttlesworth” enters the record as american civil rights activist (1922–2011). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fred, Shuttlesworth and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fred Shuttlesworth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.