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.
A similar 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 Wi...
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