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 african-americans 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. that s another tour. we won t take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. she spent five years of her life doing research on places that african-americans 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 bro
franklin finley african-american 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 african-american city councilmen took a trip to boston on city business. while he was there, he saw a sign called african-american 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 african-americans 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
contributions african-americans 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. that s another tour. we won t take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. she spent five years of her life doing research on places that african-americans 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. i took you on all of them. i have to find out how you like your fish. fried or broiled? do you like your steak medium or well? because it will take a probably about six hours. she set it up so we should be able to get through it in about two h
he took the tour and enjoyed it. he got to thinking on his way back, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the discuss about a lot of the contributions african-americans 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. that s another tour. we won t take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. she spent five years of her life doing research on places that african-americans 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. i took you on all of them. i have to find out how you like your
said african american 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. he took the tour and enjoyed it. he got to thinking on his way back, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the contributions african-americans 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. tour. another we won t take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. she spent five years of her life doing research on places that african-americans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. when she finishes, she had 39 locations thro