SHUTTLESWORTH Documentary

800 Lakeshore Drive,Homewood AL 35229

13 February, 2023

Description

The Office of Diversity will sponsor the viewing of "SHUTTLESWORTH", a documentary that focuses on the life of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a Birmingham minister and prominent figure of the civil rights movement. A question-and-answer session will follow the viewing with the producer, T. Marie King. The hour-long documentary features conversations with members of Shuttlesworth’s family, including his daughters Ruby and Carolyn Shuttlesworth, as well as interviews with historians, politicians, and community leaders including Dr. Martha Bouyer, the executive director of the Historic Bethel Baptist Church Foundation, Bishop Calvin Woods; Judge U.W. Clemon; Richard Arrington, the first Black mayor of the city of Birmingham; Birmingham’s current mayor, Randall Woodfin; and Dr. Andrew M. Manis, the author of the “A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.”