Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth is one of the greatest civil rights heroes you’ve never heard of. He spoke at the March on Washington and helped organize the Selma-to-Montgomery march that ended with an attack by Alabama state troopers. Klansmen beat him with bats and chains for trying to enroll his daughter in a white school. White supremacists bombed his house . . . twice. (In all fairness, Shuttlesworth was accustomed to being bombed. He lived in “Bombingham,” a city that Klansmen bombed at least forty times during the civil rights era, including the notorious terrorist bombing at the 16th
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