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
Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail. This is our fourth year doing the tours here in mobile. Actually they got started five or six years prior to that when one of our africanamerican city councilman took a trip to boston honesty business. While he was there, he saw a sign that said africanamerican heritage trail. He thought that 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 was close to 300 years old. And he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions 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 that would take on the opportunity or the challenge, just depending on the prospective that they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he finally found a young lady that said i will take on the
The Dora Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail in mobile alabama includes over 40 Historical Markers the tell the history of the city from the former location of a slave market to the civil rights era. Previously unamerican artifacts, tour guide eric finley took us from the slave market to africatown, founded by captives of the slave ship clotilda. Up next on par to, we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. Finley describing how African Americans established build businesses on the north side of town. This is the first African American mortuary in the state of alabama. They originally opened in the 18 eighties and built this building in the 19 hundreds. The real story is mrs. Alan. She started a private school directly behind us in the 18 eighties. It was just called joseph fiend allen institute. Before the emancipation proclamation, that was against a lot for African Americans to be educated. After that, schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate y
Trillion another half trillion since then is nothing to news at. Especially important week and i know we will get into this later, it is so whether or not they have been trying to build out a effort with iphone sales slowing down not due for the same kind of growth they saw kind of over the past decade wwdc important because of a dust up with a major developer they have been having in the past week not major because of the size of the company. We might be reaching a detaunt in that. And i know youre bringing us a big interview with brian chesky this hour. Thats right, im really excited to be part of this additional west coast coverage and to that point i sat down with brian chesky over the weekend and we talked about the travel rebound, and what the business likes like in this post kovid world take a listen. If there is a shut down or multiple shut downs, if communities are shut down, we will be okay we cut a he looks like dollars in marketing brian was very cautious about this it is a
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