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
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