TY - BOOK ID - 77891236 TI - A fire you can't put out PY - 1999 SN - 0817313451 0585354405 9780585354408 0817309683 9780817309688 9780817313456 9780817311568 0817311564 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Civil rights workers KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights movements KW - Civil rights activists KW - Race relations reformers KW - Social reformers KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - Civil rights KW - History KW - Shuttlesworth, Fred L., KW - Birmingham (Ala.) KW - City of Birmingham (Ala.) KW - Race relations. KW - Robinson, Freddie Lee, KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891236 AB - This first biography of Fred Shuttlesworth-winner of both the 2000 Lillian Smith Award and the 2001 James F. Sulzby Jr. Award-details the fascinating life of the controversial preacher who led integration efforts in Birmingham with the courage and fervor of a religious crusader. 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, Shu ER -