Civil Rights icon Rev. Shuttlesworth dies

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-05/fred-shuttlesworth-dies/50667896/1?csp=34news

Very brave and great man. RIP

Described in a 1961 CBS documentary as "the man most feared by Southern racists," Shuttlesworth survived bombings, beatings, repeated jailings and other attacks — physical and financial — in his unyielding determination to heal the country's most enduring, divisive and volatile chasm.

Although not as well known as King and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy— his compatriots in the civil rights movement's "Big Three" — Shuttlesworth brought the struggle into the living rooms of white America through a series of combustible showdowns with the Ku Klux Klan, Southern segregationists and Birmingham's infamous commissioner of public safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor.

And for Bull Connor, to quote my hero, "I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to." -Christopher Hitchens

 

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Now there's someone who helped change America for the better.