On This Day In Alabama History: Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights Was Founded

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Following a court decision that banned the NAACP from operating within Alabama, a group of African American ministers in Birmingham, led by the Rev. Fred Lee Shuttlesworth, held a mass meeting at Sardis Baptist Church and founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR). The charismatic Shuttlesworth was elected president, and the organization began a series of weekly mass gatherings with the goal of devising ways to push for racial integration.

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