TITLE

Richard Arrington

PUB. DATE

February 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;2/3/92, Vol. 112 Issue 4, p17

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Birmingham's mayor, Richard Arrington, became the city's first black mayor to walk three blocks in chains to a federal courthouse, where marshals stood by to take him to a prison in Montgomery. Time he is to spend in jail; His refusal to yield documents in an investigation of city hall corruption.

ACCESSION #

9202032386

 

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