Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times

by Jimmie Lewis Franklin

Book Overview

The story of Richard Arrington Jr., the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

During the 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama was the central battleground in the struggle for human rights in the American South. As one of the most segregated cities in the United States, the city of Birmingham became infamous for its suppression of civil rights and for official and vigilante violence against its African American citizens, most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304355
• ISBN13: 9780817304355
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"