Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham

The complaint filed in the circuit court by the City’s attorney charges that appellant “did take part or participate in a parade or procession on the streets of the City without having secured a permit therefor from the commission, contrary to and in violation of Sec. 1159 of the General City Code of Birmingham of 1944.”

The evidence, as introduced by the City, tended to show that during the afternoon of Friday, April 12, 1963, approximately 52 persons, most of whom were Negroes, departed from a church in the 1400 block of 6th Avenue North in Birmingham, grouped “in formation” on the sidewalk…