Finley took us from the sleeve market to lafayette africatown from the ship close clotilda. We pick up after the civil war with mr. Lawyer finley speaking about how african businesses flourished. They originally open in the 18 eighties and they built this building in the 19 hundreds. But the real story is mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 18 eighties. It was called joseph fiend allen institute. Again, in 18 hundreds it was against the law for African Americans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, shoot School Started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young African Americans. But this family actually came to mobile from virginia, so they were never slaves. They were free. They were somewhat elite, because they had a big home yuck. They had a big home in the city. In the 18 eighties and nineties most African Americans had shotgun homes. Unfortunately, that was the way it was. They had a lot of friends, and some of the friends w
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 that was the way it was. Well, they had a lot of friends and some of their friends were people like booker t. Washington, George Washington carver, af owens who was the principle of owens academy here in mobile and a. N. Johnson, an entrepreneur, and those guys would go fishing and because of that relationship, a lot of students got to go to Tuskegee University which meant when they graduated they became entrepreneurs, they became teachers, business people, doctors and very successful throughout the country. That relationship was a great bonding they had duke thring th time. The funeral home closed when the last sibling of the allen family passed, mrs. Gray, and just recently its been announced its going to reopen under the owen ford mortuary. From here were going to visit some other entrepreneurs and end the tour with a gentleman by the name of Wallace Turnage and he was a slave that ran away four times and got caught and ultimate
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Their way onto city streets for march people want to stress that they want change but their call is a peaceful one kron fours dan thorn reports. The families and civil Rights Groups makes its way past the fox theater in oakland the peaceful protest for victims of Police Brutality is one of many taking place across the bay area and the country you know most biggest stand up and show out that this was going to take for the government all political people in choice to Pay Attention thursdays gathering began at city hall the coalitions by any means necessary and east bay black lives matter rally for equality and defending affirmative action very few driven lot of passion, peoples voices, people were encouraged to make signs many raising highs protesters took their message from franca gala plaza to the streets change at the core of the conversation you are safe. Seeing such a diverse crowd was encouraging for many. The expectation is for the support to grow and remain peaceful you see said
End of the day right now even though you dont see visible flames they still have their hands full. You can see up on the hillside, this was a new development that took place about a minute ago we saw them come over the ridge line and look at that theyre coming down so looks like a change. Ive shifts so more firefighters are being thrown at this. This is called the call wein fire because its on colleen drive and blossom avenue and then well zoom off in the distance look at the hillside now that the sun is up you can clearly see the damage from this fire look at that has charred on the side about 90 acres burned. We should get new containment numbers very shortly as they usually update at around 7 oclock in the morning. Let me show you video this fire happened late last night this is a very populated area and it quickly spread through the very dry terrain we havent seen rain in a long time so it didnt take very long for this fire to spread. Why they think this was arson so quickly theyre