Richard Arrington memoir : transcript, 1977. 1977.

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...

University of Alabama in Birmingham. Oral History Research Office.

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Alabama Center for Higher Education

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The Alabama Constortium for the Development of Higher Education (ACDHE), which is funded by the Ford Foundation, is a consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Alabama founded to enable the member institutions to expand and enrich their educational programs and, where feasible, to economize their operations; the ACDHE evolved into the Alabama Center for Higher Education (ACHE) which is still a consortium of the HBCUs in Alabama. From the description of Alabama Cen...

Brown, Ruby Ladale, 1946-

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