After being struck with brass knuckles and bicycle chains, Shuttlesworth said, the doctor was amazed he wasn't in worse shape.
"I said, 'Well, doctor, the Lord knew I lived in a hard town, so he gave me a hard head,' " he said.
It was on display every time he went head to head with Birmingham's racist police commissioner, Bull Connor.
"He would lead demonstrations, and he would call Bull Connor and say, 'Bull, I will be on such and such corner; if you want to be part of history, be there,' " Huntley said.
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