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

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Summary	On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of share corppers, 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.
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Subject	Arrington, Richard.
	Arrington, Richard.
	Arrington, Richard.
	African American mayors -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.
	African American mayors.
	Alabama -- Birmingham.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Mayors -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.
	Mayors.
	Birmingham (Ala.) -- Biography.
	Birmingham (Ala.) -- Politics and government.
	Birmingham (Ala.) -- Social conditions.
	Birmingham (Ala.) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Arrington, Richard. There''s Hope for the World : The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama''s First African American Mayor. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1753 9780817316235
ISBN	9780817380410 (electronic book)
	0817380418 (electronic book)
	9780817316235