Gained about africa tan. She has the pleasure also, of introducing our speaker for the hour. So let us welcome, her. Thank you very much. Good morning africatown. The spirit of our festival has been a seated by our ancestors its taking root like the baobab tree, under whom we are imparting knowledge about africatown to the world. I am proud to have served as the festivals inaugural speaker, and im equally proud to introduce my successor, doctor deborah, the story of the last black cargo. Doctor deborah plant is a African American literature scholar and literary critic, whose special interest is in the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston, the story of the last black cargo, she created what the New York Times says was a profound impact on Zora Neale Hurstons Literary History in publishing Zora Neale Hurstons account of the life story of clotilda survivor, an african town cofounder. Farrakhan one New York Times bestseller, time magazines best nonfiction look of 2018. And new york Public
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
Those people in that cargo hold never ever is forgotten. For 160 years this muddy stretch of the mobile river, has covered up a crime. In july, 1860, the clotilda was towed here, under cover of darkness. Imprisoned in its cramped cargo hold, 110 enslaved africans. Sonar is on. Zero pressure. Good to drop. Thats it right there . Yes. Oh, you can see it totally clearly. I mean, thats the ship . Yes. ticking james corden put the late late show on the map and made it a mustsee stop on youtube when the comedian song and dance man decided to turn carpooling into this. This is like a cultural phenomenon. Youre making me feel incredibly british by not being able to look you in the eye during a compliment or any kind of recognition of success. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im norah odonnell. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking earer yeah i feel free to bare my skin, yeah thats all me. Nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin
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