It is often said that those who don’t learn their history are sure to repeat it. The Table Talk Series is designed to highlight the inner workings of the Civil Rights Movement. Each volume includes discussion questions that make great table conversations for families, friends, and associates before or after dinner. In this book, Author David Lockhart shines a light on one of many often overlooked Civil Rights Activists, Fred Shuttlesworth.
 
Facing the deadly fire of hatred that originated from the Ku Klux Klan, Rev. FredShuttlesworth stood under the authority of the God he served, and said, “We have come this far by faith not by violence. His belief in the power of the pen to secure justice through constitutional law reversed multiple judgments of the Alabama Supreme Court against him. His faith-driven tenacity led to The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the freedom and justice for all declared in the Constitution of the United States of America came to include African Americans.