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
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
Monument association is nonprofit that was organized in the 1990s. Theis associated with organization of the same name that until it was transferred to the National Park service. The dma is dedicated to the preservation of grants tomb, the largest muzzling them in the western hemisphere. An important part of our mission is to Foster Foster education , our ulysses s. Grant nations 18th president. In recent years, we revised the tradition dating back to the 19th century to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new york city. The program each year has been an educational one highlighted ia, quite in which general david petronius interviews a historian about different aspects of grants story. Another annual tradition is the official commemoration of grants birthday at his tomb. An impressive ceremony organized by the National Parks service and west point. We are of the pandemic all experiencing, both events have been canceled but we thought it was important to recognize grant;s birt
Good evening. Welcome. Im larry biel. Thank you so much for joining us. New developments tonight. Santa clara county is now getting ready for phase 2 under way tomorrow. The spotlight is on Face Coverings and how big a role they should play. What will it take to reopen schools here and across the state . Oakland is asking parents directly what they want to see. United looks to technology in the new coronavirus era. The goal, of course, to make surfaces safer and reassure reluctant travelers to fly again. And a rare look tonight inside cash creek casino. What its doing to reopen, it hopes, in june. A look at the headlines and one of them the new Public Health order starting tomorrow in santa clara county. It says w Face Covering when at any business as well as on public transit. However, as abc 7 News Reporter chris winn explains officials in san jose could take it further with stricter are regulations and enforcing this could be an issue. Reporter in the bay areas largest city the San
At first i was very guilty. And then i realized that all of the things that are taught you not only by society but by psychiatrist to fit you in a mold and i rejected the mold and when i did reject the mold, i was happier. Mostly independent organizations all across the country, there are somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the United States, maybe more because they grow up overnight. And this is a unified effort on the part of somewhere between 20 and 30 organizations on the east coast. The differences of approach and tactics. Certain groups tend to emphasize fill tant confrontation tactics and other groups emphasize educational approach, going into areas that people dont know much about homosexuality. Most groups provide social services to our own people, help for people in need. But this is a minor part of the effort. The major effort today is to change the social institutions that make life difficult for us. [ crowd chanting ] a portion film documentary from lilly