%0 Book %A Manis, Andrew Michael. %I University of Alabama Press %D 1999 %C Tuscaloosa %G English %B Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) %@ 0817309683 %@ 9780817309688 %@ 0817311564 %@ 9780817311568 %T A fire you can't put out : the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth %X "From his 1956 founding of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights through the historic demonstrations of 1963, driven by a sense of divine mission, Shuttlesworth pressured Jim Crow restrictions in Birmingham with radically confrontational acts of courage. His intensive campaign pitted him against the staunchly segregationist police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor and ultimately brought him to the side of Martin Luther King, Jr., and to the inner chambers of the Kennedy White House."