“The major trauma for me was the beating he took here at Phillips. I was traumatized to the point that I never discussed any of this with my children. I have three kids and five grandkids and two great grands.”
-Patricia Shuttlesworth Massengill, 80, daughter of the legendary Birmingham Civil Rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth at Phillips Academy, which renamed its auditorium in honor of the Civil Rights legend; www.birminghtimes.com, Sept. 1.