Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904-1996
Biography:
One of the first African Americans to practice law in Alabama, Shores was involved in numerous desegregation cases including the attempts by Autherine Lucy, Vivian Malone, and James Hood to desegregate the University of Alabama. Shore's Birmingham home was bombed twice in 1963. Shores was appointed to the Birmingham city council in 1969 and was later elected to the same seat, a position he held until 1978.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Alabama Media Group Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Attorney Arthur Shores being interviewed at a trial held after African American passengers were arrested for attempting to integrate city buses in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Attorney Arthur Shores presenting during a trial held after African American passengers were arrested for attempting to integrate city buses in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Audience at a trial held after African American passengers were arrested for attempting to integrate city buses in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Autherine Lucy and her lawyers, Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Shores, and Constance Baker Motley, walking past the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on the day a federal judge ordered her readmission to the University of Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, Fred Gray, and Orzell Billingsley, conferring during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, Orzell Billingsley, and others, listening to Judge Walter B. Jones speak during the NAACP hearing. (Negatives (photographs))
- Fred Gray speaking to Robert L. Carter during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Robert L. Carter presenting a newspaper as evidence during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
- Working Lives Oral History Project (William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)