It. He got to thinking on his way back, mobile which 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. 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. If i took you on all of them it would take us 6 hours. I would have to find out how you like your fish. Fried or broiled . Do you
Sworn in. Finds he spends the weekly where you get your podcasts. Previously, on american artifacts, tour guide eric finley took us from the safe slave market to africa town founded by captives of the slave ship clotilda up next in part two, we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. Finley describing how African Americans established businesses on the north side of town. This is the first African American mortuary in the state of alabama. They originally opened in 1880s. They built this building in the 1900s. But the real story is mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. It was called the Josephine Allen institute. Because in 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 actually came to mobile, from virginia. They were never slaves, they were elite. T
From our Traffic Cameras we just saw the Golden Gate Bridge were actually it will make it out for the first time in just a few days. But you can see the smoke still lingering around the bay area today. So we want to bring in now meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez to tell us when we will be able to see the smoke clear and the blue skies return good evening of risa it wont happen until tuesday. Justine and jonathan so lets take a live look outside right now still tracking unhealthy air particles. Mixed in with that fog fortunately not denser as low as it was last night where we were already under a dense fog advisory National Weather service from the Bay Area Holding back on issuing any fog advisories tonight, but as we take a look outside right now. Tracking unhealthy air particle so slight improvement from yesterday when we were under that very unhealthy range for the eastern portions of the north bay and our inland valleys of the east bay but expect similar conditions to start your work
Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail. This is our 14th year doing the tours in mobile. And actually, they got started about five or six years prior to that, when one of our africanamerican city councilmen took a trip to boston on city business. While he was there, he saw a sign called africanamerican 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 and the trails. He took the tour, and he enjoyed it. He got to thinking on his way back to mobile, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he had heard his family discuss a lot of the contributions that africanamericans had made. He said i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone who would take on the opportunity or the challenge, just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he finally found a young lady who said i will take on the opport
The Dora Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail reveals 40 historical markers, from the former location of a slave market through the civil rights era. Previously, tour guide eric finley took us from the slave market to africa town founded by captives of the slave ship cl i clotilda. With mr. Finley describing how africanamericans established businesses on the north side of town. This is the first africanamerican mothrtuary in e state of alabama. They originally opened in the 1880s, and they built this building in the 1900s. The real story is mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s, it was called Josephine Allen institute. Again in 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 actually came to mobile from virginia. They were somewhat elite, they had a