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Arrington, Richard

Biography:

Richard Arrington served on the city council in Birmingham, Alabama, and later became the first African American mayor of the city. He served as mayor from 1979 until 1999.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
  • Oral history interview with Richard Arrington, July 18, 1974 (Transcripts)