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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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

Full List of VOHP Interviews

VOHP Interview List.pdf

List of full VOHP interviews available for viewing at Local History & Genealogy library

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

Descriptions of Oral History Interview Tapes

Descriptions of Oral History Interview Tapes.pdf

Summaries and notes for the oral history interviews

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

Elizabeth Vickers Courtney Interview - 1 July 1983

Elizabeth Vickers Courtney . 1 Jul 1983.mp3

Oral history interview of Elizabeth Vickers Courtney at her home at 27 Hillwood Drive

Tags: Brookley Field, Constantine's, Dew Drop Inn, Elizabeth Vickers Courtney, Mary B. Austen, Mobile, Murphy High School, oral history, rationing, Weinacker's, World War II

Joaquin M. Holloway, Sr. Interview - 27 June 1983

Joaquin M. Holloway, Sr . 27 Jun 1983.mp3

Oral history interview of Joaquin M. Holloway, Sr. at Mobile Public Library

Tags: De Juan Kidd, Emerson High School, Emily Nichols, Fisher's Alley, Great Depression, Harrison Holloway, Juaquin N. Holloway Sr., Lalie Felis, Mobile

Mary Francis Plummer Interview - 21 June 1983

Mary Francis Plummer . 21 Jun 1983.mp3

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

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

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