At the film’s Birmingham premiere screening on Dec. 15, director J. Whitson and producer T. Marie King shared insight on their mission to tell the story of the “biggest personality that Birmingham ever created.”
The hour-long documentary features conversations with members of Shuttlesworth’s family, including his daughters Ruby and Carolyn Shuttlesworth, as well as interviews with historians, politicians, and community leaders including Dr. Martha Bouyer, the executive director of the Historic Bethel Baptist Church Foundation, Bishop Calvin Woods; judge U.W. Clemon; Richard Arrington, the first Black mayor of the city of Birmingham; Birmingham’s current mayor, Randall Woodfin; and Dr. Andrew M.
“Shuttlesworth” also examines the history of Birmingham’s economy and the creation of the two-class system of labor that divided the city’s white and black citizens. “One thing I just wanted to tell you. It’s about Fred Shuttlesworth, but it’s also about Birmingham. It’s about the people in Birmingham and the people that were behind Fred Shuttlesworth,” said Whitson. “And if it wasn’t for those six or 700 people that were showing up all the time, everywhere, there would have been nothing. And I think Rev. Shuttlesworth would have obviously admitted the same thing.
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