Mobile Public Library Local History & Genealogy Library

The Local History and Genealogy Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the history of Mobile, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

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Collection: Mobile Tricentennial Video Oral History Project Interview Clips

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Willie Pearl Lewis Interview Clips

Willie Pearl Lewis talks about being a teacher, moving from Mobile County Training School to Vigor High School, and being one of the first black teachers at a formerly all white school.

Tags: desegregation, education, literacy, Mobile County Training School, oral history. Willie Pearl Lewis, race relations, Randolph Thrower, Vigor High School

The Pope Sisters Interview Clip

Eoline Pope Scott and Odile Pope Owen talk about their father in the Excelsior Band and family memories

Tags: Battle House, cigarettes, Eoline Pope Scott, Excelsior Band, food, mardi gras, Mardi Gras Parades, music band, Odile Pope Owen, Pope Sisters, smoking

Rosemary Braziel Butler Interview Clip

Rosemary Butler talks about race relations in Mobile, including segregated theaters and her husband's fight for the position of State Housing Commissioner .

Tags: Mobile Housing Board, race relations, segregation, theater, Wallace

Paulette Davis Horton Interview Clip

Part of the VOHP interview of Paulette Davis Horton, discussing her book, Avenue, the People, the Places, the Memories, and discussing her experiences interviewing Mobilians for the book

Tags: Avenue, book, Davis Avenue, mardi gras, Melody Masters, Mobile, Paulette Davis Horton, race relations, racial identity

Olney Lucious Interview Clip

Olney Lucious talks about his experiences as a musician in Mobile

Tags: A.F. Owens, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, E.B. Coleman, Excelsior Band, Gomez Auditorium, ILA Hall, mardi gras, Mardi Gras ball, Melody Masters, Mobile, music band, Olivia Rivers, Walter Thompson, Walter Thompson and his Matadors

Martha West Davis Interview Clips

Martha West Davis talks about her grandfather, Cudjo Lewis, the Clotilde, Cudjo's funeral, Mon Louis Island, the Plateau Community, etc.

Tags: Clotilda ship (last slave ship to the U.S.), Clotilde, creole, Cudjoe 'Kazoola' Lewis, farm life, Martha West Davis, Mon Louis Island, Plateau Cemetery

Mabel Dennison Interview Clip

Mabel Dennison talks about her book, including her grandparents, the Clotilde, and Africatown

Tags: Africatown, Clotilda, Clotilda ship (last slave ship to the U.S.), Clotilde, Mabel Dennison

Lorna Gail Woods Interview Clip

Lorna Woods talks about the sense of community and family she experienced growing up in Lewis' Quarters.

Tags: Africatown, community, Lewis' Quarters, love

Lancie Thomas & Claretta Blackmon Interview Clip

Lancie Thomas and Claretta Blackmon talk about The Mobile Beacon, what it has done for the community, politics, Gov. Wallace, and the Klan.

Tags: African American newspaper, desegregation, George Wallace, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Mobile, newspaper, politics, The Beacon

James Arthur Reed Interview Clip

James Arthur Reed talks about Gomez Auditorium, the bands that used to play there, and his first job at Albright and Wood's Drug Store.

Tags: Albright & Wood, Arthur James Reed, Besteda Brothers, Carolina Cottonpickers, Davis Avenue, Ella Fitzgerald, Gomez Auditorium, Simon Hat Shop, zoot suit

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