There's Hope for the World : The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor

Show other versions (1)

On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of share croppers, boarded a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Alabama, to leave his home state for the first time in his life. He was headed for the University of Detroit on a teaching scholarship from Miles College. Richard Ar...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arrington, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arrington, Richard.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Mayors.
Economic history.
African American mayors.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Maires > Alabama > Birmingham > Biographies.
Maires noirs americains > Alabama > Birmingham > Biographies.
Mayors > Alabama > Birmingham > Biography.
African American mayors > Alabama > Birmingham > Biography.
Alabama > Birmingham.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Economic conditions.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Social conditions.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Politics and government.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of share croppers, boarded a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Alabama, to leave his home state for the first time in his life. He was headed for the University of Detroit on a teaching scholarship from Miles College. Richard Arrington could not have guessed then that his future as a teacher would be postponed for decades by big-city politics--and that he would serve a record-setting five terms as chief executive of Alabama's largest city. Under Arrington's leadership, Birmingham rebu.
Physical Description:1 online resource (287 pages).
ISBN:9780817380410

Similar Items