Casmarah Mani Interview Clips
Oral History
Casmarah Mani talks about changes in his community, the effects of desegregation, and race relations.
Casmarah Mani talks about his time in prison, police corruption, and his lawsuit against the city for the attempt on his life by police officers.
Casmarah Mani
National African American Archives & Museum
Museum of Mobile
Mobile Tricentennial Video Oral History Project
National African American Archives & Museum,
Museum of Mobile
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy
2000
mp4
English
Oral history interview
VOHP-CasmarahMani-Community
James Arthur Reed Interview Clip
Oral History
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.
James Arthur Reed
National African American Archives & Museum
Museum of Mobile
Mobile Tricentennial Video Oral History Project
National African American Archives & Museum,
Museum of Mobile
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy
2000
mp4
English
Oral history interview
VOHP-JamesArthurReed-Gomez
Bill Bates & Bill Bates V Imaginary Diary Entries - John Adams Project, with Evaluation - 1983
Toulminville history
Imaginary diary entries for hypothetical persons Bill Bates and his descendant, Bill Bates V, written by 15 year old John Adams as part of his Growing Up in Mobile: Depression & Wartime project, with critique by historian Elizabeth Barrett Gould
John Adams
Growing Up in Mobile: Depression & Wartime, 1929 - 1949
Mobile Public Library
1983
Elizabeth Barrett Gould
Appendix I - "The Bates House" - John Adams Project
Appendix II - Toulminville one of oldest neighborhoods - John Adams Project
Appendix III - 1914 Stone Street - John Adams Project
Appendices IV & V - St. Stephens Rd. & Andrews St. - John Adams Project
Appendix VI - 1865 Stone Street - John Adams Project
Stone Street Map - John Adams Project - 1983
pdf
English
Growing-Up-in-Mobile-John Adams Diary Project-1983
Arless Nixon, Director of Library
newspaper article
Article about Mobile Public Library, including a section for when it first opened as a free public library, a section for Emma Harris, the library's improving financial status, the Fine Arts room, and a section for director Arless Nixon
Mobile Press-Register
Emma Cortez Harris Collection
Mobile Press-Register
jpeg
English
Arless-Nixon-Director
Paulette Davis Horton Interview Clip
Oral History
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
Paulette Davis Horton
National African American Archives & Museum
Museum of Mobile
Mobile Tricentennial Video Oral History Project
National African American Archives & Museum,
Museum of Mobile
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy
1999
mp4
English
Oral history interview
VOHP-PauletteDavisHorton-Avenue
Commissioners Step From Under Can Antwerp Petition
1918 Influenza
Sub-headlines:
All Fountains Are Closed By New Ordinance
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Sale of Anything Over Counter Prohibited Except Packages That Can Be Taken Away by Customers - Drinks Banned
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Unusual Phrase Put In Legal Document
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First Suggestion From Board of Health to This Board of Need of Closing Fountain, Ordinance States.
The Mobile Register
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy
The Mobile Register
October 20, 1918
Microfilm
English
news article
1918-Influenza-Oct-20-fountains-close