Fighters for desegregation; Dan Warren and Fred Shuttlesworth.(Obituary)
Dan Warren and Fred Shuttlesworth, fighters for desegregation in America's South, died on September 18th and October 5th respectively, aged 85 and 89
THE golden beaches at St Augustine in Florida, America's oldest city, stretch for 40 miles along the Atlantic, sloping gently into the blue, lazy surf. They seem the last possible place for a battle. But in the summer of 1964 the waves were full of Klansmen with wooden stakes and the beach beside the pier heaving with helmeted police, as a line of blacks in bathing gear tried to desegregate with a "wade-in" the warm, whites-only water.
Head of the Negro column, tall, lean, proud, unable to swim but not caring, flinging himself into the ocean as he flung himself at everything else, was Fred Shuttlesworth. He was a Baptist pastor from Birmingham, …
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