Cincy St. gets donation honoring civil-rights leader

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati State has received a donation to award scholarships in honor of civil-rights leader the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who died last week at 89.

College President O’dell M. Owens said today the $500,000 donation was given by Dick Weiland, founder and president of Richard Consulting Corp.

The funds will be earmarked for the Dick Weiland Endowed Scholars Program in Honor of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth to benefit students from targeted communities. Plans are to raise another $1 million.

Shuttlesworth, who was a pastor in Cincinnati for decades, died Oct. 5.

He had been pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., beginning in 1953, and was bombed, beaten and arrested in the civil-rights fight.

He remained active in the movement in Alabama after moving in 1961 to Cincinnati.