Family and friends of Fred Shuttlesworth in a waiting area at Hillman Hospital, where he was taken after Klansmen beat him while he was trying to enroll his daughters in the all-white Phillips High School.
This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on September 9, 1957, with the following caption: "Negro group at hospital - Waiting outside the emergency room at University Hospital are the Rev. J. S. Phifer, Ruby Shuttlesworth, Nathaniel Lee, Patricia Ann Shuttlesworth and Walter Wilson....
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/14197 |
| Summary: | This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on September 9, 1957, with the following caption: "Negro group at hospital - Waiting outside the emergency room at University Hospital are the Rev. J. S. Phifer, Ruby Shuttlesworth, Nathaniel Lee, Patricia Ann Shuttlesworth and Walter Wilson. All were in the car with the Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth when he was attacked at Phillips High School." (Though identified as Ruby Shuttlesworth, the young woman on the right appears to be someone else.) |
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