In a lengthy letter, Dale Mims disputed a published account of Mobile’s era of political indictments, arguing the prosecutions of the 1970s and 1980s were shaped by displaced money and federal politics.
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First Jobs, Part Two: Crab Picking in Bayou La Batre and a Quarterback Sweeping the Shop
More Mobile-area figures recalled the work that started them off, including a summer picking crab in Bayou La Batre that produced a lifelong vow about education, and a future NFL quarterback cleaning parts.
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130 Boxes and a Termite Problem: A Mobile Political Life Went to the Archives
Former City Commissioner Lambert Mims donated more than 130 boxes of papers, photographs and reel-to-reel tapes to the University of South Alabama, documenting a quarter century in Mobile politics.