Rev. Shuttlesworth Calls for Peace and Action

Rev. Shuttlesworth Calls for Peace and Action. March Route for Fair Housing. The explosions in August and the deaths of the girls and two boys in acts of violence on September 15, all attached to school integration in 1963, deeply shook Birmingham. The violence stoked deep resentment and anger in the Black community. While Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth’s nonviolent ACMHR called for restraint, he also threatened to call Dr. King back to Birmingham to resume the 1963 spring mass demonstrations that had turned public sentiment worldwide against racial bigotry. The Black men protecting Dynamite Hill reinforced their neighborhood patrols from dusk to dawn. , "A man may die, nations may rise and fall but an idea lives on." , President John F. Kennedy, The last terrorist bombing attempt at Attorney Shores' home and other targets on Dynamite Hill ended in 1965. The explosions that rang out after that were set off to make way for the new interstate that cut through the neighborhood. Whites eventually fled to the suburbs, made easier in part by the new highway system. Eventually, Shores would be appointed to fill a vacancy on the City Council which was created when White moderates and Blacks voted in 1963 to change Birmingham's form of government to get rid of "Bull” Conner. That year the council repealed all of the city's segregation codes. Shores, the first African American on Birmingham's City Council in 1968, served for ten years. , Lesson H23: Were Birmingham's African Americans right to respond to violence with nonviolence?