Founded businesses on the east side of town. The 1800s before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for africanamericans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young africanamericans. This family came to mobile from virginia so they were never slaves. They were somewhat elite because they had a big home in the city. And 1890, most africanamericans had shotgun homes unfortunately. That was just the way it was. They had a lot of friends, people like booker t. Washington, George Washington f. Owens and a a. N. Johnson, who was an entrepreneur. Those guys would go fishing. Because of that relationship, a lot of her students got to go to Tuskegee University in the 1900s and on, which meant that when they graduated they became entrepreneurs, teachers, business people, and very successful throughout the country. That relationship was a great bond that they had during that time. The funeral home closed
Finley took us from the sleeve market to lafayette africatown from the ship close clotilda. We pick up after the civil war with mr. Lawyer finley speaking about how african businesses flourished. They originally open in the 18 eighties and they built this building in the 19 hundreds. But the real story is mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 18 eighties. It was called joseph fiend allen institute. Again, in 18 hundreds it was against the law for African Americans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, shoot School Started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young African Americans. But this family actually came to mobile from virginia, so they were never slaves. They were free. They were somewhat elite, because they had a big home yuck. They had a big home in the city. In the 18 eighties and nineties most African Americans had shotgun homes. Unfortunately, that was the way it was. They had a lot of friends, and some of the friends w
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 that was the way it was. Well, they had a lot of friends and some of their friends were people like booker t. Washington, George Washington carver, af owens who was the principle of owens academy here in mobile and a. N. Johnson, an entrepreneur, and those guys would go fishing and because of that relationship, a lot of students got to go to Tuskegee University which meant when they graduated they became entrepreneurs, they became teachers, business people, doctors and very successful throughout the country. That relationship was a great bonding they had duke thring th time. The funeral home closed when the last sibling of the allen family passed, mrs. Gray, and just recently its been announced its going to reopen under the owen ford mortuary. From here were going to visit some other entrepreneurs and end the tour with a gentleman by the name of Wallace Turnage and he was a slave that ran away four times and got caught and ultimate
Eric they originally opened in 1880s. They built this building in the 1900. Story a misses alan mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. Allen called the institute. Before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for africanamericans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, still schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young africanamerican. Came toily actually mobile, virginia. Home near Dolphin Island and they had a big home in the city. 1890s, that and was the way it was. They had a lot of friends. A lot of friends were people like booker t. Washington. Of ellensle they would go fishing. Because of that relationship, a lot of her students got to go to tuskegee institute. That meant that when they graduated, they became entrepreneurs. They became teachers, business people, doctors and very successful, throughout the country. Greatelationship was a bonding that they had during that time. Closed a fewome ye
Eric they originally opened in 1880s. They built this building in the 1900. The real story a mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. It was called the allen institute. Before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for africanamericans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young africanamerican. This family actually came to mobile, virginia. They had a big home near Dolphin Island and they had a big home in the city. In the 1880s and 1890s, that was the way it was. They had a lot of friends. A lot of friends were people like booker t. Washington. Because of that relationship, a lot of her students got to go to tuskegee institute. That meant that when they graduated, they became entrepreneurs. They became teachers, business people, doctors and very successful, throughout the country. That relationship was a great bonding that they had during that time. The funeral