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There's Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor
Richard Arrington
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Description for There's Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor
Hardcover. Under Richard Arrington's leadership, Birmingham rebuilt itself from a foundering, steel-driven industrial center to one of the most diversified metropolitan areas in the Southeast, with an economy fueled by health care, biomedical research, engineering, telecommunications, and banking. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; BM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of sharecroppers, 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 rebuilt itself from a foundering, steel-driven industrial center to ... Read more
On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of sharecroppers, 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 rebuilt itself from a foundering, steel-driven industrial center to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817316235
SKU
V9780817316235
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About Richard Arrington
Richard Arrington Jr. holds a Ph.D. in zoology and biochemistry and did postdoctoral work in higher education administration at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. During his two decades as Birmingham's mayor, he served on dozens of community service boards and the Executive Committee of the Alabama Democratic Party and chair of the National Democratic Party's Platform Committee for ... Read more
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