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

by Jimmie Lewis Franklin. 363 pgs.

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Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times
Book by Jimmie Lewis Franklin; University of Alabama, 1989
Subjects: African Americans--Alabama--Birmingham--Politics And Government, Arrington, Richard, Birmingham (Ala.)--Politics And Government, Mayors--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography
...returning to his alma mater, Richard Arrington left the institution to become...The eventual ascendancy of Richard Arrington in Birmingham politics owed much...about 600,000 people at the time Arrington finished his Ph.D. degree and...
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But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
Book by Glenn T. Eskew; University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Subjects: African Americans--Civil Rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th Century, African Americans--Civil Rights--History--20th Century, Birmingham (Ala.)--Race Relations, Civil Rights Movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th Century, Civil Rights Movements--United States--History--20th Century
...change of heart among those in the federal government. The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom to be...that had shut down its state branches in Alabama and Louisiana, the NAACP worried about...movements in other southern cities such as Birmingham and Atlanta had staged one-day protests...leadership class. Born into a prominent African American family, educated at Morehouse College...problems faced by the masses of African Americans is credit to his character, yet that protest...action, and further involved the federal government in the struggle. Similar to COREs 1947...activists met little resistance, but in Alabama, the Ku Klux Klan firebombed one bus in Anniston and beat the integrationists in Birmingham. Again the SCLC had not anticipated the...next day. His message electrified the 1,000 African Americans assembled in Shiloh Baptist Church: "Dont...
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A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Book by Andrew M. Manis; University of Alabama Press, 1999
Subjects: African Americans--Civil Rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th Century, Birmingham (Ala.)--Race Relations, Civil Rights Movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th Century, Civil Rights Workers--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography, Shuttlesworth, Fred L.--1922-
...Shuttlesworth calls on African Americans to violate the new policy...little support from Birmingham ministers. November...legal fees; Birminghams African American middle class...arrested in Gadsden, Alabama, for allegedly causing...Birminghams municipal government from a commission to...approve change in city government; mayoral elections set...major demonstrations in Birmingham; plan is nicknamed Project...inaugurated as governor of Alabama; calls for "segregation...unless Boutwell hires African Americans for police or civil...than the leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for...Shuttlesworths central role in a Birmingham campaign that was crucial...episodes of the struggle for African American civil rights...demonstrations. Granted, most Americans have grown to associate...
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The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881
Book by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins; University of Alabama Press, 1991
Subjects: African Americans--Alabama--History--19th Century, Alabama--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Reconstruction--Alabama, Republican Party (Ala.)--History--19th Century
...pp. 1948 Tankersly. Allen P. "John Brown Gordon, Soldier and Statesman." Privately Printed. 1951 Todd Richard Cecil. "Confederate Finance." University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1953. 1954 Morrow Ralph E...
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Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics: African Americans and Asian Americans - Vol. 1
Book by Jeffrey D. Schultz, Kerry L. Haynie, Anne M. McCulloch, Andrew L. Aoki; Oryx Press, 2000
Subjects: African Americans--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Asian Americans--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Hispanic Americans--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Indians Of North America--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Minorities--United States--Political Activity--Encyclopedias, United States--Ethnic Relations--Encyclopedias, United States--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, United States--Race Relations--Encyclopedias
...the 1963 Good Friday March in Birmingham, Alabama. He was with King at his assassination...gender preferences in state and local government in California in 1996. The largely...affirmative action, especially on black Americans. The general consensus is that it has benefitted largely middle-class African Americans, who are most qualified...It is another example of "identity politics" at work in the African-American...
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A Place to Call Home: Cultural Understandings of Heir Property among Rural African Americans*
Journal article by Janice F. Dyer, Conner Bailey; Rural Sociology, Vol. 73, 2008
Subjects: African Americans, Case studies, Cultural values, Economic development, Housing rehabilitation, Sales
...used trailer home from a Birmingham-based charitable organization...already on the books in Alabama) was passed granting families...ownership." Yet many rural African Americans consciously choose to...Research elsewhere in Alabama and the South is needed...Extension Systems and non-governmental organizations such as...than a "homeplace." As African Americans increasingly become part...
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God, Gandhi, and Guns: The African American Freedom Struggle in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1964-1965
Journal article by Simon Wendt; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 89, 2004
Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Demonstrations and protests, African Americans--History, Black power movement--History, Black power--History, Tuscaloosa, Alabama--History, Tuscaloosa, Alabama--Social aspects
...local peoples flagging enthusiasm for political activism. (113) Only Joseph Mallisham remained interested in politics, running for the post of Tuscaloosas Public Safety Commissioner in 1968 and again in 1972. Although he lost each time to a white candidate, his ambitions symbolized the new assertiveness of African Americans. In 1985 Mallisham finally won public office, becoming the first black County Commissioner ever elected in...the civil rights era. Compared with the bombings and brutal beatings that activists endured in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, Tuscaloosa escaped the worst forms of racist terror. One reason could be that the local movement...DeSantis, Tuscaloosa, AL, 6, July 1987, tape recording; Ruth Bolden, interview with Alan DeSantis, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 16 June 1987, tape recording; Rev. Willie Herzfeld, interview by Alan DeSantis, Tuscaloosa, AL, 12 August...
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The Fusion of Ideas: An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander
Journal article by Maryemma Graham; African American Review, Vol. 27, 1993
Subjects: African Americans--History, Alexander, Margaret Walker--Interviews, American literature--African American authors, Literature--Social aspects
...than ten years left in this century. So the body of my work - whether its Jubilee, For My People, This Is My Century, or Richard Wright - springs from my interest in a historical point of view that is central to the development of black people as we...
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Thomas Goode Jones and African American Civil Rights in the New South
Journal article by Brent J. Aucoin; The Historian, Vol. 60, 1998
Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights--History, Jones, Thomas Goode--Political activity, Southern States--Civil rights
...established throughout the South. In short, white southerners succeeded in taking away many of the civil rights that African Americans had gained with emancipation and would not regain until the 1960s. Thomas Goode Jones was one of a handful...moderates such as Jones or William J. Northen of Georgia. Although these men were losers in the game of racial politics, they deserve greater attention from scholars not only for their courageous stand against extreme racism but...After Slavery (Lexington, 1978), 47-49; Alexander Bickel and Benno Schmidt Jr., The Judiciary and Responsible Government, 1910-1921 (New York, 1984), 841-46; Sheldon Hackney, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (Princeton, 1969); Hugh Davis, "An Analysis of the Rationale of Representative Conservative Alabamians, 1874-1914...
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'But It Is a Fine Place to Make Money': Migration and African-American Families in Cleveland, 1915-1929
Journal article by Kimberley L. Phillips; Journal of Social History, Vol. 30, 1996
Subjects: African Americans--History, Cleveland, Ohio--History, Migration, Internal--History
...Working Class Families in the Birmingham District, 1900," Southern...years. 15. See Phillips, Alabama North. 16. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis...Domination and Resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in...Thomas; Samuel W. Black, "African American Photographers in...more useful look at data on African-American households in Cleveland...
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Top Cities for African Americans: The Results Are in. Here Are Readers' and Editors' Picks for the Best Places to Work, Live, and Play
Magazine article by Carolyn M. Brown, David A. Padgett; Black Enterprise, Vol. 34, July 2004
Subjects: African Americans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African Americans--Surveys, Baltimore, Maryland--Evaluation, Cities and towns--Evaluation, Cities and towns--Surveys, Columbus, Ohio--Evaluation, Memphis, Tennessee--Evaluation
...says Brett Oates, the mayors director of public information. Birminghams downtown area has several...department in the state of Alabama Nonetheless, respondents...publishing, electronics, and government services Landmarks...owned businesses. African Americans make up 61% of Atlantas...4 Birmingham, AL 7...REJECTION RATES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS FOR CONVENTIONAL HOME...9 Birmingham, AL 92...
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A Tale of Eight Cities: Go South to Surprises
Magazine article by Roxanne Brown; Ebony, Vol. 44, August 1989
Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights, Birmingham, Alabama--Race relations, Charleston, South Carolina--Race relations, Charlotte, North Carolina--Race relations, Houston, Texas--Race relations, Little Rock, Arkansas--Race relations, Memphis, Tennessee--Race relations, New Orleans, Louisiana--Race relations, Richmond, Virginia--Race relations
...the South better than any other Southern city, Mayor richard Arrington, Jr. is serving his ninth year in office. Three years...about 26.5 percent of the more than 76,000 classified government positions. In the judiciary, Blacks are represented...
3.
Muddying the Waters; the Years of Martin Luther King
Magazine article by Robert A. Caro, Art Levine; Washington Monthly, Vol. 22, June 1990
Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights, Birmingham, Alabama--Race relations, Civil rights movements--Appreciation, King, Martin Luther, Jr.--Biography
...supposedly innocent black children being blasted with water hoses and chased by police dogs. Millions of Americans were outraged, and the worlds press descended on the once-calm city of Birmingham as the demonstrations grew in size each day. Bull Connor, once the hero of Birmingham and Alabama, had become an archaic liability, outwitted by the media-savvy King. No longer would white and black people...against The New York Times, but that ultimately was rejected in federal court. The city-commission form of government that had made him so powerful was rejected by the voters, and he was defeated in an attempt to become mayor. The 1963 Birmingham campaign marked the end of the old ways of politics and ushered in a new era of media and money, but the man who was victimized by this shift lived for another...
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A Measure of Profits
Magazine article by Harold Jackson; Black Enterprise, Vol. 22, June 1992
Subjects: African American business enterprises--Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama--Business and industry
...dead last among 48 cities suveryed for their rate of balck business ownership. The statistic was an ambarassment to Richard Arrington Jr., who was sworn in as Birminghams first black mayor in 1980. While pointing out that the article was based on...
5.
Voting Rights Activists Acquitted: Suing the Victims
Magazine article by Allen Tullos; The Nation, Vol. 241, August 3, 1985
Subjects: African Americans--Political activity, Civil rights activists--Cases, Civil rights workers--Cases, Perry County, Alabama--Politics and government, Turner, Albert--Cases
...by Allen Tullos On July 5, a Federal jury in Selma, Alabama, acquitted Albert Turner, Spencer Hogue Jr. and Evelyn Turner...against the Marion Three, and they are scheduled for trial in Birmingham at the end of August. Among the indicted are longtime civil...
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GOP Primary Slugfest May Help Democrat
Newspaper article by Sean Scully; The Washington Times, June 30, 1998
Subjects: Arrington, Richard, Republican Party
...Democratic group headed by Birminghams longtime Mayor Richard Arrington. The governors staff offered the coalitions lawyer...the Wallace days," Mr. Arrington said, referring to Alabamas famous segregation-era governor. Religious conservative...
2.
Arrington Terms Dispute a Travesty
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 4, 2004
Subjects: Washington Redskins
...Management Council. NFLPA general counsel Richard Berthelsen has not returned repeated...be heard by the management council. Arrington, for his part, yesterday indicated...one of the events of recent weeks," Arrington said. The Redskins responded last night to Arringtons comment. "If anyone owes an explanation...
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Agent: Arrington Got Cheated
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 24, 2004
Subjects: Washington Redskins
...the league." Neither Poston nor NFLPA general counsel Richard Berthelsen returned phone calls seeking comment. NFL spokesman...Aeillo said he had heard nothing about the accusation. Arringtons deal was valued at nine years (including the 2003 season...Washington cap relief and more contract years but rewarded Arrington with little extra value. The NFLPA has not determined...
4.
LaVar May Drop Grievance against Redskins
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 14, 2005
Subjects: Arrington, Lavar, Washington Redskins
...deadline pressure. NFL Players Association general counsel Richard Berthelsen said an arbitration date hasnt been set. A hearing...attorney. An NFLPA source said there was no indication from Arringtons camp that the charge would be dropped. Neither Arrington nor Carl Poston returned phone calls seeking comment.
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The 800; A Birthday Celebration of 800 People Who Put Liverpool on the Map
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 28, 2007
Subjects: Commonwealth games--Management, Coronation Street (Television program), Lennon, John--Achievements and awards, Manchester United--Management, McCartney, Paul--Achievements and awards, UEFA Cup (Soccer)--Management, United Kingdom. Royal Army Medical Corps--Management
...Cathedral Fabrics Commission, while he is a vocal critic of the government on occasion. Wally Fielding (1919-), footballer Wally Nobby...buildings are Didcot power station, London Central Mosque, Birminghams Priory Square and Harlow new town. Sugar Gibiliru (1966...became popular with protesters against Margaret Thatchers government. Hills long career also includes two Lord of the Rings...
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Alabama , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALABAMA , state, United States , state in the southeastern United States. It is bordered by Tennessee (N), Georgia (E...133,677 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,447,100, a 10.1% increase since the 1990 census. Capital, Montgomery. Largest city, Birmingham. Statehood, Dec. 14, 1819 (22d state). Highest pt., Cheaha Mt., 2,407 ft (734 m); lowest pt., sea level. Nickname...


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