Birmingham, AL – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Birmingham this weekend for a service honoring the late civil rights leader and minister Fred Shuttlesworth.
Holder will speak at a remembrance ceremony for Shuttlesworth at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday night. Shuttlesworth will be buried the next day at Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham.
Holder has family ties to the civil rights movement in Alabama. His sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, was the first black person to receive an undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Shuttlesworth died Oct. 5 at age 89. He was an early leader of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, surviving bombings and beatings as he tried to end legalized racial segregation.
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