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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...

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 b...

Have officers at polling locations to make sure no one interferes with the process. But any member of the public can also be wh called an election observer at a polling site well talk more about what that means tonight at 6. Live at city hall rm todays tmj4. The Us Justice Department is sending election monitors to milwaukee and jurisdictions all over the country. Wisconsins two United States attorneys will have laer respond to any poteial violations of federal election law. A Record Number of people have voted early in wisconsin. The state Elections Commission reports nearly 800thousand peopl...

Mentions the college is one of the places that offered hope and inspiration and try to do the right thing. So i just want to call attention to the fact that in addition to those dramatic headlines for you saw police dogs and you saw the bombed church in earning him and those horrific scenes that were the flipside of the courage that the civil rights leaders and protesters were displaying that you also had these quieter things going on in a number of different places. Mobile had an africanamerican man whose name was john leflore and mr. Leflore back in the 1920s decided he was going to take on ...

Ari Berman says both the Supreme Court and the lower courts are working to dismantle the '65 law that's considered one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation ever enacted in the U.S.