Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

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.

Browse Items (140 total)

Probate Court Incorporations May 16 1984 Mobile Register 2D.pdf
Newspaper article on the incorporation of Direct Descendants of Africa in Africatown

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Descendants of Clotilde survivor heading here by the hundreds Aug. 13 1998 Mobile Register 1A, 13A.pdf
Newspaper article on reunion of some Clotilda survivor descendants

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Museum of Mobile's exhibit details slave trade Aug. 5 2007 Mobile County Neighbors 1, 6.pdf
Newspaper article on transatlantic slave trade exhibit

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Clotilda descendants to meet Tuesday May 5 2005 Mobile Register 2SB.pdf
Newspaper article on meeting of Clotilda descendants

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Black heritage trail takes shape Mar. 30 2007 Mobile County Neighbors 1, 6.pdf
Newspaper article on Mobile's black heritage trail including Africatown markers

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You can go home again Aug. 18 2005 Points North 1 Final.pdf
Newspaper article on various events in Mobile

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Council seeks to honor history of more black neighborhoods in Mobile Sept. 22 2009 Press-Register 1B Final.pdf
Newspaper article on Africatown and Oakdale as potential historic districts

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Seeking to correct a historical mistake Dec. 14 1998 Mobile Register 12A Final Editorial.pdf
Editorial on the spelling of Clotilda

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Sound Off Clotilda memories Jan. 26 1998 Mobile Register 2A Final.pdf
Editorial containing memories of the Clotilda

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Reclaiming our heritage Mar. 25 1999 Mobile Register 1B, 3B.pdf
Newspaper article on relations between Ghana and descendants of Clotilda slaves

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