The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Richard Ernest Arrington, Jr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Richard Ernest Arrington, Jr.

05/04/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.094

Political leader Richard Arrington (1934 - ) served as dean of Miles College and was the first African American mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama. Arrington was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 05/04/2017, in Birmingham, Alabama. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 13m 52s

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Arrington, Richard, 1934-

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Richard Arrington Jr. (born October 19, 1934) is an American educator and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as the first African American Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama from 1979 to 1999. Born in Livingston, Alabama and raised in Fairfield, Alabama, he was a standout student at Fairfield Industrial High School, learning dry cleaning there, taking a job at a cleaner and applying to Fairfield's Miles College after graduation. Arrington majored in biology at Miles and...