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July 16, 2024
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 F...
July 16, 2024
Sworn in. Finds he spends the weekly where you get your podcasts. Previously, on american artifacts, tour guide eric finley took us from the safe slave market to africa town founded by captives of the slave ship clotilda up next in part two, we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. Finley describing how African Americans established businesses on the north side of town. This is the first African American mortuary in the state of alabama. They originally opened in 1880s. They built this ...
July 16, 2024
Available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the Canon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im sarah elliott, the curator at the house of representatives. And im matt rauz nwasniewsk. We want to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century, and we have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot...
July 16, 2024
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...
July 16, 2024
The Dora Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail reveals 40 historical markers, from the former location of a slave market through the civil rights era. Previously, tour guide eric finley took us from the slave market to africa town founded by captives of the slave ship cl i clotilda. With mr. Finley describing how africanamericans established businesses on the north side of town. This is the first africanamerican mothrtuary in e state of alabama. They originally opened in the 1880s, and ...
July 16, 2024
Tvs american artifacts we visit the Cannon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im farar elliott. And im matt waz knsniewski. We wanted to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina. An...
July 16, 2024
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...
July 16, 2024
The Dora Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail in mobile alabama includes over 40 Historical Markers the tell the history of the city from the former location of a slave market to the civil rights era. Previously unamerican artifacts, tour guide eric finley took us from the slave market to africatown, founded by captives of the slave ship clotilda. Up next on par to, we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. Finley describing how African Americans established build businesses on...
July 16, 2024
To the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the ash trar congress which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history p...
July 16, 2024
Spot where general George Washington and the Continental Army crossed on christmas night in 1776. Well see the reenactment and talk with several participants. [ drumroll ] sdas we are doing a reenact mint of George Washingtons crossing on christmas night 1776. What happened here is actually one of the most unexpected and daring revolution the story is washington they encamped in several locations around this area, including the to which aye kneely house, which is part of our park, and things are...