- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Arthur Davis Shores
- Creator:
- Woodham, Rebecca
- Date of Original:
- 2008-08-16
- Subject:
- African American lawyers--Alabama--Birmingham
Lawyers--Alabama--Birmingham
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham
Segregation in education--Alabama
College integration--Alabama--Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights movements--Alabama
City council members--Alabama--Birmingham - People:
- Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904-1996
Lucy, Autherine, 1929-2022 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa, 33.20984, -87.56917 - Medium:
- interactive resource
articles - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about African American attorney Arthur Davis Shores who worked for racial equality, despite threats and violence. Shores was one of the first and most successful black attorneys in Alabama, whose career defending civil rights began in the 1930s and continued until his death in 1996. His most notable case was representing Autherine Lucy, a black woman whose admission to the University of Alabama in 1955 was fought by the white establishment.
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