Clotilda the less slave ship to bring slaves to north america. Then, we take you on a tour of africatown with tour guide eric finley. My name is eric finley, and i am the decent for the African American heritage trail. This is our 14th year for doing the tours here in mobile. And they got started around five or six years prior to that, when one of our city councilman took a trip to boston on the city business, and while he was there he saw a sign that said African American heritage trail. He said that sounded interesting because it was kind of a novelty and part in most of the minions museums that we see today, and we took the tour, and he endured it, and he got to thinking lets way back to mobile, its close to 300 years old, and he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions that African Americans had made. So i think this is something that we could do in mobile and do it very well, so he started looking around the city for someone that would take on the opportunity
Home on the livestream, we welcome you. My name is martin. And executive director of the institute of war and democracy. We are the humble group of scholars that bring you programs such as this, and its our absolute pleasure to have paul with us tonight. The institute, what do we do . Apologize to the veterans. They hear this every few weeks. The institute serves as a Research Corps and the Higher Education center of the museum. We like to call or sells a community of scholars. Our job is to build bridges to academics and other experts around the world to make them part of the family and plug them into programs such as this. To produce scholarship of our own, as our multiple senior awardwinning historian has done with all 10 of his books. We also offer a wonderful new service, the world war ii veteran Research Project and service, which you can find on the website. You can trace the individual history of world war ii participants throughout the war, put that package together through ar
Contributions africanamericans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. Her name was Dora Franklin finley. Dora was my double first cousin. Thats another tour. We wont take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. She spent five years of her life doing research on places that africanamericans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. When she finishes, she had 39 locations throughout the city. We will visit about 20 of those today. I took you on all of them. I have to find out how you like your fish. Fried or broiled . Do you like your steak medium or well . Because it will take a probably about six hours. She set it up so we should be able to get through it in about two hours. I cant
He took the tour and enjoyed it. He got to thinking on his way back, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the discuss about a lot of the contributions africanamericans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. Her name was Dora Franklin finley. Dora was my double first cousin. Thats another tour. We wont take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. She spent five years of her life doing research on places that africanamericans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. When she finishes, she had 39 locations throughout the city. We will visit about 20 of those today. I took you on all of them. I have to find out how you like your fish. Fried or b
Said African American heritage trail. He thought it sounded interesting because it was kind of a novelty, it was prior to most of the museums we see today. He took the tour and enjoyed it. He got to thinking on his way back, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the contributions africanamericans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. Her name was Dora Franklin finley. Dora was my double first cousin. Tour. Another we wont take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. She spent five years of her life doing research on places that africanamericans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. When she finishes, she had 39 locations throughout the ci