Birmingham Civil Rights Leader Fred Shuttlesworth Dies

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The news was surely overshadowed by Steve Jobs’ death Wednesday, but another important figure in American history has died: Birmingham civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth, who Mark Luther King Jr. once called “The most courageous civil rights fighter in the South.” He was 89.

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