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
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
All these vehicles. These are just a fraction of the hundreds of people that have been involved in this search. Some on the job. And others just volunteering. It has been a massive effort that im told will continue through tonight and they wont stop they say until they find little noah thomas. Live in dublin, virginia, im mola lenghi for wusa9. Thank you. Hoping they do find that young boy. All right, pulaski Sheriffs Office says theyve not met the criteria yet to issue an amber alert but the sheriff says if they do, it will be put out there right away. Authorities have called off the search for the the remains of a german wings airplane that crashed in the french alps. The hard to reach area. 150 people were on board the plane which was on its way from spain to germany. Tina use reports from San Francisco tina crouse reports from france. Reporter the german wings plane carrying 150 people was about an hour into its flight from barcelona to dusseldorf. French Officials Say there was no
Impaired. There are a couple here as well. Probably the most include the braille display and use the dots. This computer has a braille embosser as well. One of my favorite uses of this machine was by a person who was deaf and blind who was coming in weekly to make Shopping List. So he could type out his list emboss a copy so he knew that he included everything he wanted to shop for and there is a conventional printer there and he printed out a Shopping List for every person. It was so much fun to watch him using this machine because deaf and blind, you know, he was flying through the internet and making documents and it was all a mystery to me. I just couldnt see how he was doing it. He was very good at it. There also is a picture of a cctv on here. We have cctvs in the library for the blind and print disability on the 4th and 5th floor. These are machines where you put a document on the table and they can enlarge it and have it, actually the one in the picture is scroll text. Its a re
Export their files and hang onto them and work better. It has nt work for us for a while. There is one called a library or wheels that is for seniors and residents and activity centers. They have regular schedules for library on wheels. 3 of our locations is wheelchair accessible. When we buy another, it will be wheelchair accessible. The final slide here goes back to our Mission Statement about the joyce of reading for our diverse community. One of the things i think is great in our collection are the books that maybe useful for people with disabilities in many ways, figuring out how to cope with hearing loss and how to make their home more accessible so they can age in place. Their a lot of books that are just fun and i have here wonder struck which is a wonderful graphic novel. An Award Winning middle school book called reaching for son that i really love. Its by a young girl. Its a great book. And an auto biography, one of my favorite books called moving violations by john hocken b