F. L. Shuttlesworth Drive

F. L. Shuttlesworth Drive is the name of a series of streets following the route of the pioneer Huntsville Road diagonally for four miles through the regular street grid in Birmingham's Northside and North Birmingham communities. It was dedicated in 1988 in honor of Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights founder Fred Shuttlesworth, whose Bethel Baptist Church stands a few blocks east in Collegeville.

The first section takes off from 19th Street North at Oak Hill Cemetery and continues through Druid Hills to 19th Avenue North, continuing as 24th Street North.

The main section picks up again at east of U.S. Highway 31 at 18th Avenue North in the Norwood neighborhood. From there it continues northward through the eastern end of the Evergreen neighborhood, over Village Creek and through the center of the Collegeville and Harriman Park neighborhoods. The drive proceeds to Boyles Gap at Cedar Street, where it continues as Erwin Dairy Road.

Notable locations

Druid Hills

• street begins at 19th Street North
  • Arthur Shores Park
• 13th Avenue North intersects
  • 1301: STS Prideline
  • 1401: Salvation Army Thrift Store
  • 1428–1432: Uptown Villas apartments

Norwood

• 15th Terrace North intersects (west only)
  • 1546: Triple M Food Mart
• Stouts Road intersects (west only)
• 19th Avenue North intersects (street continues as 24th Street North)

• Walpole Inc.

Collegeville

• 21st Avenue North intersects
• Village Creek passes below
  • 2301: Nucor Steel
  • 2336: River Bottom Pine
  • Evolutia, former location of Birmingham Stove & Range Company (1915-1986), A & B Foundry (1986-1991), KMAC Greenworks
• 27th Avenue North intersects
  • Maclin Park
• 29th Avenue North intersects
  • Collegeville Center public housing community (built 1964)
  • Council President Maxine Herring Parker Bridge (built 2015)
  • 2919-2921: former location of Big Chief Inn / Big Chief Club (James J. Green 1955)
  • 3013: former location of Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly Trinity Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (-2014)
• 31st Avenue North intersects
• 32nd Avenue North intersects
• 33rd Avenue North intersects (west only)
  • 3300: Hudson K-8 School (built 1922)
• 33rd Terrace North intersects
• 32nd Street North intersects
  • 3501: Mt Olive Community Church
  • 3520: St Mark Baptist Church
• 34th Terrace North intersects
  • 3800: Lusco's Food Store (Dominic Lusco)
• 34th Street North intersects

Harriman Park

• former location of Calloway Elementary School (built 1958, closed 2011), JCCEO Head Start Center (2011-2016)
• 35th Avenue North intersects
  • 3505: former location of Discount Meat Center No. 1 (George Anselmo 1970)
  • 4200: Alabama Warrior Railway
• 4345-4347: Harriman Park / Harriman Park Recreation Center
  • 4353: New Allen Temple AME Church
  • 4700: Cemex