What did fred shuttlesworth do
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Fred Shuttlesworth
(1922-2011)
Who Was Fred Shuttlesworth?
Fred Shuttlesworth was a Baptist minister and one of the South's most prominent Civil Rights leaders. He worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., co-founding the SCLC and organizing direct-action protests in Birmingham, refusing to waver even after multiple attacks. Also a community activist in Cincinnati, he died on October 5, 2011.
Background and Call to Pulpit
Freddie Lee Robinson was born in Mount Meigs, Alabama, on March 18, 1922. Born to a large clan that eventually moved to Birmingham when he was a toddler, Robinson took the surname Shuttlesworth from his stepfather, William, who had married his mother Alberta and worked as a farmer and coal miner.
Graduating valedictorian from his high school, Fred Shuttlesworth worked assorted jobs before finding his calling to the pulpit, studying at the ministerial institution Selma University and earning his B.A. in 1951, later earning his B.S. from Alabama State College.
Civil Rights Leader
Shuttlesworth became pastor of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church in
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Mark Shuttleworth
South African entrepreneur and space tourist (born 1973)
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system.[1] In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first African to travel to space, doing so as a space tourist.[2][3][4] He lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship from South Africa and the United Kingdom.[5][6] According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Shuttleworth is worth an estimated £500 million.[7]
Early life
Shuttleworth was born in Welkom, Free State, South Africa, to a surgeon and a nursery-school teacher,[8] Shuttleworth attended school at Western Province Preparatory School (where he eventually became Head Boy in 1986), followed by one term at Rondebosch Boys' High School, and then Bishops/Diocesan College where he was Head Boy in 1991.[9][10] Shuttleworth obtaine
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Biography
From November 2000 until September 2013 Mark Shuttleworth was based at Imperial College London where his main brief was to run the MSc in Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation with Translation Technology. In October 2013 he moved to University College London where he continues to research, teach and supervise PhD students on a wide range of different translation-related topics within the School of European Languages, Culture and Society. His publications include the Dictionary of Translation Studies, which appeared in 1997 and which was translated into Chinese in 2005, and works on metaphor in translation, translation technology, translator training and medical translation.
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