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Reorganized under Alabama's Mayor Council Act of 1955, the city government consisted of a mayor and nine at-large City Council representatives. Changing demographics in the city's electorate led to the election of Birmingham's first African-American mayor, Richard Arrington Jr., in 1979. [3] [4]
Birmingham Black Barons (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "African-American history in Birmingham, Alabama" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Richard Arrington Jr. (born October 19, 1934 in Livingston, Alabama) was the first African American mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama (U.S.) and the second African American on the City Council. He served on the council for two terms from 1971 to 1979 and was mayor of the city for 20 years from 1979 to 1999.
There's Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor, University of Alabama Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8173-1623-5; Berney (1878), "Birmingham", Handbook of Alabama, Mobile: Mobile Register print. Fazio, Michael W. Landscape of Transformations: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama. University of Tennessee ...
Pages in category "African-American mayors in Alabama" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
African Americans in Alabama or Black Alabamians are residents of the state of Alabama who are of African American ancestry. They have a history in Alabama from the era of slavery through the Civil War, emancipation, the Reconstruction era , resurgence of white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws, the Civil Right movement, into ...
African-American history in Birmingham, Alabama (16 P) C. ... History of Birmingham, Alabama; Timeline of Birmingham, Alabama; 0–9. 4 Little Girls; 1950s synagogue ...
African-American mayors in Alabama (16 P) B. Mayors of Birmingham, Alabama (17 P) H. ... Pages in category "Mayors of places in Alabama"