Fred Shuttlesworth

Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 44 percent of Fox Chase Cancer Center, 35 percent of Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, 33 percent of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 32 UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and 30 percent Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are immigrant. The highest number of immigrants in this field comes from China with 21 percent followed by India with 10…

If you 've considered trying yoga, then get on your mat and be fearless. Unlike common misconceptions that yoga is nothing more than a simple stretch, a closer look at how yoga can improve long term health, reduce stress, depression, and chronic pain proves that yoga is a beneficial workout. You might be surprised with the many benefits it has to offer. Yoga is for ____people. Common misconceptions is that yoga is for young, thin, and flexible people. On the contrary, many people are…

Kill Those Giants! Malcolm Gladwell, in his novel David and Goliath, introduces to his readers the idea of how peoples’ perspectives on events are so drastically different according to how they are affected. He brings to the table three types of groups one could be a part of according to the Canadian psychiatrist J.T. MacCurdy; “direct hits,” “near misses,” and “remote misses.” You can place anyone included in a catastrophic crisis in one of these groups. What comes to mind when I think of…

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth had determined his work to combatting Birmingham’s white supremacy leadership and devoted his work to fighting for justice (Letter From a Birmingham Jail). Unfortunately, this did not translate well into the church. Due to his actions, Reverend Shuttlesworth was continuously mistreated by others, including members of his own church. His house was vandalized, and in 1957…

But there are many that are unfamiliar to us when we bring up the Civil Rights Movement. We never think of the minor people like Harry T. Moore or Fred Shuttlesworth, Ella Baker, Charles Hamilton Houston. James Farmer pointed out in 1963, the proponents of nonviolence, peace and friendship were only a small proportion of the participants in the movements. Like Malcolm X, Farmer believed that “If nonviolence…

non-violent campaign made up of African American people. Judge W. A. Jeakins issued a ruling preventing “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing, and picketing.” The leaders decided not to follow this ruling, so Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and other Marchers were arrested. They were all treated very harshly in jail. One of their allies snuck in a newspaper which contained “A Call for Unity,” which is a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen, who agreed that…

Alabama. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C) along with the Fred Shuttlesworth’s Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (A.C.H.R.) fought for the rights of African Americans. Bull Connor, who was the Commissioner of Public Safety, did everything in his power to prevent the desegregation and equality of rights for African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. and the S.C.L.C along with Fred Shuttlesworth and the A.C.H.R. worked with many agencies to help acquire…

churches and skillful appeals for white support (Carson, 2000). After the United States Supreme Court outlawed Alabama bus segregation laws, King expanded the nonviolent civil rights movement throughout the South. Joining forces with C. K. Steele, Fred Shuttlesworth and T. J. Jemison, King founded and became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King also became a leader of many more groups after the publication of his first book, "Stride toward Freedom: The…

arrested because of racial issues and racism they started protesting and they protested in different cities and different societies. A major reason behind this movement was religious leadership. The Reverends Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt T. Walker, Joseph Lowery, and Jesse Jackson were the main faces of this movement. All the leaders influenced the participants of the protest religiously and socially as well. According to philosophy, it is civil right of all…

In the two great pieces of literature by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” and “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, he uses both logical and emotional appeal and executes them brilliantly. Although they are both strong points used by Dr. King he has a greater strength in using emotional appeal, or pathos, than logical appeal, or logos. As he refers to the Emancipation Proclamation and the Alabama Christian Movement for human rights there are some potent arguments about how the African…