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"Actioni.st" that less than two months after these riots, the FBI removed Shuttlesworth from its "Rabble Rouser Index.,,96 As times changed, the fiery minister found he missed the excitement of the old days. Asked by an interviewer if he had enjoyed the danger of his days in Birmingham, he replied, "Tell you the truth about it, I did.... It was thrilling, in that you were challenging the system, and you knew that something had to move.... I wish to God people would get a-moving again." Still, throughout the 1970S and 1980s, as in Birmingham, he always remained with his marching shoes at the ready. In June 1979, at age fifty-seven, he led two bus loads of people to the Ohio statehouse to protest unfair utility practices. He also planned a massive voter registration campaign and pushed to change the system of electing Cincinnati city council members. Quoted in an article titled "CityMinister Has No Plan to End Fight;' Shuttlesworth said, "We are fighting the same fight we fought 23 years ago, and it upsets me to know that people think we are so far ahead when we are not. We are not fighting the Ku Klux Klan, but we are fighting people with a Klan mentality.,,97 That summer, as chair of the Direct Action for the Coalition Concerned for Justice and Equality, he marched on Cincinnati's city hall as the first of several speakers opposing a decision to grant police .357 Magnum handguns and hollow -point-controlled expansion bullets. Shuttlesworth spoke out against police brutality and increased police firepower. Some days later he and other ministers warned the city council that the preachers would organize voter registration and that the council could count on little African American support in their November elections. Always harking back to his Birmingham experience, he told the council: "Only a fine line of difference separates the backwardness of pre1963 Birmingham and present conditions in Cincinnati today. We are prepared to struggle for our freedom:' During the next month, Shuttlesworth called for a boycott of Cincinnati's downtown businesses, an action that won the support of the city's most influential African American group, the Committee of Fifty. Lasting less than two months, the boycott ended with negligible effect on the businesses because the city council voted to increase black representation on the police force by suspending state civil service regulations. Shuttlesworth promised continued vigilance in pushing the city toward affirmative action and said the controversy produced between five and six thousand new voter registrations and increased awareness in the African American community.98 During the Reagan era, Shuttlesworth fervently preached against the ad433 "Acti.onist" ministration's massive budget cuts in social programs and the president's frequent use of racial code words, such as his attacks on welfare and affirmative action. In addition, early in Reagan's first term the preacher left a White House tour group with seven other African Americans to conduct a sit-in on the grounds, where they prayed for "strength and resistance for black people" in the face of the Reagan budget cuts. When asked by police to move, the eight continued to pray and were arrested. Only Shuttlesworth, however, remained in jail overnight because as a visitor to the District of Columbia, he was ineligible for a special bail bond program. Pleading guilty to unlawful entry, he received a sixty-day sentence and one year's probation. On his release, he commented, "We can't go back in time. We can't lose the civil rights gains that were won in the 'sos and '60S. We must protest the militarizing of this country and the world and the budget cuts that will surely hurt the poor:,99 Shuttlesworth's protest was a part of a larger effort organized by the Community for Creative Nonviolence in which such activists as Benjamin Spock and Father Phillip Berrigan were also arrested. Returning home to Cincinnati, Shuttlesworth joked, "The jailbird is back home:' Two years later Shuttlesworth was arrested again in Washington, this time at the Capitol rotunda with 162 persons protesting Reaganomics. Later, in an address at New Orleans's Xavier University, he exulted, "The last two times I went to jail was in Washington, D.C. because I couldn't let Ronald Reagan come to Washington and get out comfortablywithout my saying something to him:'lOo During the 1980s and 1990S, Shuttlesworth became involved with the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice...

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