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Casmarah Mani Interview Clips

Casmarah Mani talks about changes in his community, the effects of desegregation, and race relations.

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

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

Part 1 of Eugene Walter's Conversations About Mobile oral history interview, in which he discusses his early life and travels in Europe.

Tags: art, costume, Eugene Walter, Europe, theater

Part 2 of Eugene Walter's Conversations About Mobile oral history interview, in which he discusses his return to the United States and Mobile.

Tags: cookbook, Eugene Walter, music, opera, puppetry, theater

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

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

Tags: Africatown, community, Lewis' Quarters, love

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

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

Oral history interview of Mary Francis Plummer at the Haunted Bookshop

Tags: Brookley Field, Caldwell Delaney, Christ Church, Erwin Craighead, Frank McCloskey, Haunted Bookshop, Jay Higginbotham, Mary Francis Plummer, Mobile, rationing, Reeve Carlson, Tommy Oberding, World War II