Mayor-Elect Randall Woodfin, Odessa Woolfolk, Dr Richard Arrington receiving the Fred Shuttesworth Human Rights Awards
Times Staff Report
Photos by Stephonia Taylor McLinn
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) on Saturday hosted its combined 2017 Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award Program and 25th-anniversary celebration in the Institute at 520 Sixteenth Street North.
The recipients of the Shuttlesworth Award this year were Dr. Richard Arrington, Birmingham’s first African American Mayor (1979- 1999), Harry Belafonte, musician, actor and human rights activist; and Viola Liuzzo, (honored posthumously) a volunteer and civil rights activist from Detroit who was the only white female to die in the struggle.
Belafonte, now 90 years of age, was unable to travel. Several members of Viola Liuzzo’s family were in to Birmingham to receive the award.
The BCRI opened on Nov. 15, 1992, and a number of leaders attended the ceremony including mayor-elect Randall Woodfin, Congresswoman Terri Sewell and U.S. Senate candidate Democrat Doug Jones. Since its opening, more than two million people have visited the BCRI.
Dr Carolyn Shuttlesworth Fred Shuttlesworth, Jr Ruby Shuttlesworth and Patricia Shuttlesworth Massengill
Doug and Louise Jones
Dr. Neal Berte and Hezekiah Jackson IV
Donna Todd & Carolyn Shuttlesworth
Donna Edwards Todd
Congresswoman Terri A Sewell and Odessa Woolfolk
Peter Sis, Doug Jones, Louise Jones, Felicie Pinton, tapestry Maker
Priscilla Hancock Cooper.
Rosilyn Houston, Tony Liuzzo Anthe Rhodes-Liuzzo, Mary Liuzzo- Lillboe and Congresswoman Terri Sewell
Zillah Fluker & Kwame Fluker
Patrick Parker & Casi Ferguson
Herschell Hamilton and Dr Richard Arrington.
Mike Oatridge, Andrea Taylor and William Barber.
Mayor-Elect Randall Woodfin, Odessa Woolfolk, Dr Richard Arrington receiving the Fred Shuttesworth Human Rights Awards
Mayor-Elect Randall Woodfin and Dr Richard Arrington, Jr.
Linda Malone
Kevin And Juliette Arrington
Joe and Virgina Volker
Gary Burley Bobbie Knight and Mr. and Mrs. Iva Williams.
Mrs L Bradford Bobbi Knight, and Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, Virgina Volker. Her daughter accepted the 2017 Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award for her mother Viola Liuzzo.
