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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

• The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
  • Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, Birmingham, Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
• Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
  • Arthur Davis Shores (Articles)
• 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))
  • Oral history interview with Arthur Shores, July 17, 1974 (Transcripts)
  • Oral history interview with U. W. Clemon, July 17, 1974 (Transcripts)
• With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress)
  • Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 29 - Negro coed leaves court--Autherine Lucy, left foreground, leaves Federal Court here today with her attorneys, Thurgood Marshall, center and Arthur Shores, after court recessed (Black-and-white photographs)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of bomb damage done to the home of African American attorney Arthur Shores in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 September 4 (Moving images)