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The gentle giant of Dynamite Hill : the untold story of Arthur Shores and his family's fight for civil rights
Title:
The gentle giant of Dynamite Hill : the untold story of Arthur Shores and his family's fight for civil rights
Author:
Lee, Helen Shores, 1941-
Personal Author:
Lee, Helen Shores, 1941-
Publication Information:
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, [2012]

©2012
Physical Description:
287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; cm
Summary:
From the perspective of his daughters, chronicles the life of the civil rights attorney who, with his family, came under attack by the KKK in the 1960s for representing desegregation cases, the NAACP, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904-1996.
Subject Term:
African American lawyers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.

Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.

Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Geographic Term:
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Birmingham (Ala.) -- Biography.
Added Author:
Shores, Barbara, 1945-

George, Denise.
ISBN:
9780310336204
Format :
Book

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