Career:

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a pastor doing a sermon

• Shuttlesworth attended a Baptist church in 1943, even though he was raised in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E) Church. When the preacher from the church invited Shuttlesworth to give sermons, he decided to go to attend Cedar Grove Academy, which helped him prepare to become a reverend.
• He started first at small churches in Alabama, such as becoming the pastor at the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham from 1953-1961.
• In addition, he was the pastor in 1961-1966 at the Revelation Baptist Church in Cincinnati.
• He became the pastor in 1966 of the Greater New Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio and was the founding director of the Shuttlesworth Housing Foundation.