Founded businesses on the east side of town. The 1800s before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for africanamericans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young africanamericans. This family came to mobile from virginia so they were never slaves. They were somewhat elite because they had a big home in the city. And 1890, most africanamericans had shotgun homes unfortunately. That was just the way it was. They had a lot of friends, people like booker t. Washington, George Washington f. Owens and a a. N. Johnson, who was an entrepreneur. Those guys would go fishing. Because of that relationship, a lot of her students got to go to Tuskegee University in the 1900s and on, which meant that when they graduated they became entrepreneurs, teachers, business people, and very successful throughout the country. That relationship was a great bond that they had during that time. The funeral home closed
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
Have officers at polling locations to make sure no one interferes with the process. But any member of the public can also be wh called an election observer at a polling site well talk more about what that means tonight at 6. Live at city hall rm todays tmj4. The Us Justice Department is sending election monitors to milwaukee and jurisdictions all over the country. Wisconsins two United States attorneys will have laer respond to any poteial violations of federal election law. A Record Number of people have voted early in wisconsin. The state Elections Commission reports nearly 800thousand people returned absentee ballots as of this morning thats out 25 percent of voters. Thas 133thousand more than in the last president ial election the elecons commission projects threepointone Million People will vote in wisconsin. Nearly 70 percent the voting age one of the biggest races in the country is here in wisconsin. Incumbent republican ron johnson and former senator, democrat Russ Feingold are
Mentions the college is one of the places that offered hope and inspiration and try to do the right thing. So i just want to call attention to the fact that in addition to those dramatic headlines for you saw police dogs and you saw the bombed church in earning him and those horrific scenes that were the flipside of the courage that the civil rights leaders and protesters were displaying that you also had these quieter things going on in a number of different places. Mobile had an africanamerican man whose name was john leflore and mr. Leflore back in the 1920s decided he was going to take on segregation and started one of the earliest naacp chapters in the south here in mobile and kind of quietly went about the business of opposing lynchings and pursuing the right to vote, pursuing the desegregation of buses and public accommodations and mostly he did it through negotiation and lawsuits and that kind of thing less like demonstrations and confrontation. He found a few moderate wide all
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