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
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
According to me. And also to those of us, our audience at home on the live stream, we welcome you as always. My name is martin lay cano from the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World war ii museum. We are the humble group of scholars that bring you programs such as this and it is pleasure to have paul here with us tonight. The institute. What do we do . Apologize to the veterans that hear this every fee weeks but it is the search core and the Higher Education center of the museum and we call ourselves a community of scholars to build bridges to academics and other authors and experts around the world to make them part of the Museum Family and plug them into programs such as this to produce scholarship of our own as our multiple Award Winning Senior Historian rob sateeno, not here because hes celebrating his 60th birthday has done with all ten of his books. We offer a wonderful new Research Project and service which you could find on the website. We cou
Dr. Bell has presented many topics related to American History and early revolution period over the past of the last several years. He received phd from harvard and ba from university of cambridge in england. Hes associate professor history in maryland in college park where he specialize in american early history and cultural history and has been honored with more than half dozen teaching awards. The American Society of 18th century studies bestowed his award on topic of ordinary lives in the American Revolution. And his book stolen, five free boys kidnapped into slavery into their astonishing journey which tells the true story of five boys smuggled into slavery in the deep south and dairy escape to bring their captors to justice is being published by simon and schuster in october. Thank you once again for joining us, please join me in welcoming dr. Rick bell. [ applause ] all right, folks, thanks to heather. Thanks to cspan for covering this. Those who might have been here before and
Tomorrow. It will be a problem for the morning commute, but tomorrow will be sunny, new years eve chilly and the forecast for the beginning of 2020 in a few minutes. It is the last 49ers game tonight and it is a big one, the team facing the seahawks. Kpix5 reporter joe vazquez is at the old pro in palo alto catching up with fans. I am hearing that the 9ers are ahead right now. Reporter they are ahead which means weve been watching high fives and smiles all around here at the old pro in palo alto. These veteran sports fans have been cheering the 49ers through the lean years. This is a mean year right now and this is a very important game. The 9ers are battling for a division title, the nfc west, Home Field Advantage in the playoffs, also a week off if they win at the beginning of the playoffs, but this is the seahawks theyre playing. This is a rivalry. There is bad blood. The seahawks, they beat the 49ers just a few weeks ago in a very close game and these teams do not like each other a